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I should be clear, that's a reaction to pages like this one: https://web.dev/web-bundles/ https://web.dev/web-bundles/ There are similar ones. These are sugg
by jmull 6y ago
I should be clear, that's a reaction to pages like this one:
https://web.dev/web-bundles/ https://web.dev/web-bundles/
There are similar ones.
These are suggesting people want to share or access web sites in some other way than links. I don't think that's true in any significant way.
> ...they want the things they can do with that technical feature...
I agree. But the problem with all of the alternative transport scenarios is they have the user managing transport through some additional actions on their part. People couldn't care less about HTTP. What they like about it is they click/tap or copy/paste a link and that's it. Additional steps, like going through a specialized UI to share files via bluetooth is not going to interest very many people. That web site actually suggests people may want to share/access their website through the sneaker-net. That's just not a very important scenario.
To take your photo sharing example. That could be done using a web bundle. But it could be done in a variety of ways that would look the same from a user perspective. Keep in mind a network (with servers) is needed to share the data, whether there's a web bundle or not. So the remote servers are there, regardless.