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If I understand correctly, when a nowhere URL is pasted in a browser, what happens is: 1. the browser downloads generic JS libraries from the main site 2. the
by toyg 6mo ago
If I understand correctly, when a nowhere URL is pasted in a browser, what happens is:
1. the browser downloads generic JS libraries from the main site
2. these libraries then decode the fragment part, and transform it into the UI
If that's correct, someone still has to host or otherwise distribute the libraries - hence why you need the app to use it while offline (it ships the libraries).
This is not criticism, I'm just trying to get my head around how it works.
- rrvsh 6mo agoI think it still fulfills the brief; the website you are accessing is still hosted "nowhere". Very cool concept, just read about fragments on the MDN docs a couple month ago
- embedding-shape 6mo ago> Very cool concept, just read about fragments on the MDN docs a couple month ago Crazy to hear someone reading about something today, that been around since the 90s and probably is one of the first parts you touch when doing web development, but I guess you're just another one of the 10K lucky ones :) (https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/)
- nchie 6mo agoBut dependencies are part of a website? It literally says "Still here when the internet isn't." - but I can't go on there without an internet connection?
- jdiff 6mo agoService Workers can cough up this stuff even without a connection, provided you already visited the site once before. This is how sites like Twitter still load their bones even without a connection.