alt Hacker NewsYou'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.
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throw101010 • today at 3:05 PM
Isn't that the price of a relatively well sandboxed experience by browsers?
I've experienced the same limits building small tools for myself and friends that I wanted to contain in a single HTML file without external dependencies... but I understand why the same project without these restrictions could easily become malware, and ones that could be easily propagated.
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slipperybeluga • today at 2:51 PM
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couldn't you just embed the js directly into the html file though? that would sidestep the CORS error. and since most of the people using a program like this are likely to be using AI to generate their ( likely throwaway ) applets anyway, readability and maintainability for the source doesn't matter as much as it would with human authors so having a separate js file doesn't bring that many advantages anyway.