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Doug Parker 🕸️Dec 6, 2023

Reminds me that #WebBundles could potentially obsolete #PDFs if we are only bold enough to try:

https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/issues/606

Form use cases · Issue #606 · WICG/webpackage

Forms as files Today, there are countless companies around the world which send simple forms as files to collect information from customers. The use case essentially works like: Business creates a ...

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Sarah Jan 1, 2023

Tried out #WebBundles to package an app to see if it could out do zip, and the integrations aren't there yet for it to be very useful. It doesn't seem to be able to be installed on mobile so you have to open the file with your browser every time you want to use it. Could definitely become a useful format in the future, but for the moment any use I could get out of it I'd have to write an app for myself, and no one publishes in the format

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JauntyWunderKind Nov 8, 2022

@judell there's a lot of missing technical middle, but, @ftrain semi-seemingly agrees; https://tilde.zone/@ftrain/109303023579062622

and that's good enough for me! i mean not entirely- i also happen to think for myself there's much truthfulness! but good to see paul chiming in & commenting about the old becoming new, the recycling of ideas, & confirmation from about, in my head, from you Jon.

alas the syndication model is pretty inferior. http has so many future-fronts it could get good at, but feels so radically deeply under-funded, under-pushed. i really wish #webbundles #webpackaging #wbn had a bit more get-up-and-go drive to it, more support. HTTP Signatures alone would help the syndication model, but each fedi posting actively redistributable content bundles would totally shake everything up, be far closer to ideal. if only webpackaging could make the obvious happen, it'd be a huge lock.
https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/issues/713

Paul Ford (@[email protected])

Content warning: It's wild to see people try to make sense of the fediverse. "It's like email" is nice but it's more like "it's like NNTP + UUCP over an HTTP transport layer coordinated by ActivityPub."

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Hex Oct 16, 2022

#IsolatedWebApps build upon #WebBundles to provide explicitly versioned web-applications.

https://github.com/WICG/isolated-web-apps

Useful when you want trustworthy (end2end-) encryption in the browser. @protonmail, @Tutanota, @matrix and webmail-clients come to mind.

GitHub - WICG/isolated-web-apps: Repository for explainers and other documents related to the Isolated Web Apps proposal.

Repository for explainers and other documents related to the Isolated Web Apps proposal. - WICG/isolated-web-apps

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ankostis Oct 2, 2022

Google has crossed the Evil side, and comfortably prioritize the needs of publishers & advertising industry over users with #WebBundles:
https://brave.com/web-standards-at-brave/3-web-bundles/

WebBundles Harmful to Content Blocking, Security Tools, and the Open Web | Brave

Google is proposing a new standard called WebBundles. This standard allows websites to “bundle” resources together, and will make it impossible for browsers to reason about sub-resources by URL. While we appreciate the problems the WebBundles and related proposals aim to solve, we believe there are other, better ways of achieving the same ends without compromising the open, transparent, user-first nature of the Web.

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Trevlig Mjukvara Sep 15, 2020

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JauntyWunderKind Aug 28, 2020

pretty tired of the bashing on Google's attempts to improve the web.

bunch of weeks ago there was the Safari/Firefox press-release blast proudly proclaiming that MIDI & ambient light & quite a number of other seemingly basic asks not just wouldn't be done, but phrasing it like it was in the user's interest, that these were too dangerous to consider. please. c'mon. so much showboating.

there've been two big anti #WebBundles screeds recently, which, imho, is one of the most promising & core innovations on the web, a major censorship buster, & key to an offline-capable web. the one from the Brave browser person in particular was filled with endless nonsense that he's floundered in describing in any useful way in github issues; it comes off as so puffed up & dishonest to me.

huge push back against tech, but these are some of the few people genuinely trying to improve things. not in all places, but here, i recognize.

[email protected]Aug 28, 2020

#google #amp 2.0? Learn why #webbundles are harmful to users thanks to this post from #brave - more importantly, share this information with your colleagues, friends, and family!

https://brave.com/webbundles-harmful-to-content-blocking-security-tools-and-the-open-web/