alt Hacker NewsThis is great. Curious: this requires users to have a host app installed on their machine that can read .capsule file right? Won't that be a point of friction for distribution?
Isn't html/css a better distribution mechanism as most computers already have the tech to run them?
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bashtian • today at 2:12 PM
The problem is that you can't save the user data in way that you can click a single file, similar to a Word or Excel file. I you think a about it, a Excel spreadsheet is also just UI + data in a single file.
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ProfDreamer • today at 3:22 PM
That reminds me of TiddlyWiki[1], a wiki application in the form of a single self-contained HTML file.
lukasbm • today at 2:43 PM
I imagined the capsule website would be able to either convert or directly run/open them
You'd think so, but web browsers are downright lobotomizing the ability for local HTML files to run any meaningful javascript code. Want to run a JS file from the same directory? CORS ERROR!!!!
Hence 200MB applications that are complete copies of the Chromium browser to run under 1MB of actual web code.