This is great. I just wish this clumsy wording was a bit tighter:
> the whole website is contained within a single HTML file.
Because, it's not. An HTML file, a CSS file, and some PNGs. What's interesting is there is no JavaScript.
> the whole website is contained within a single HTML file.
Because, it's not. An HTML file, a CSS file, and some PNGs. What's interesting is there is no JavaScript.
Then in practice the issue becomes a bloated file that isn't able to reuse internal components, at least not without introducing a layer of complexity such as a scripting language and browser APIs to go with it.
Perhaps if HTML had been designed with more component re-usability in mind, the landscape of the internet would look very different today. Then again, what sense would there be in having a single HTML file for a site like Wikipedia or Altavista? And imagining the web evolving without a scripting language would be naive.
Single file websites that could be served up on blob or network storage certainly appeal to me, especially today.
what would make it different from DAT's Beaker Browser?
Having no JS or having everything in a single HTML file, and the title suggests the latter.
Also, you can embed the JavaScript too.