Re: Browser suggestion: local server

Why not just download a copy of nginx? It can be ran from a folder directly
without any install. Or a python install (they can be portable as well) and
use its simple HTTP server module?

Getting a local server running for testing is very easy and accessible now.
I don't see why UA's should be forced to step in here.

- Garbee

On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Steve Comstock <steve@trainersfriend.com>
wrote:

> On 11/12/2015 11:36 AM, Gannon Dick wrote:
>
>> Hello Steve,
>>
>> There are excellent, not IT motivated reasons for
>> using a local server, or better said locating an
>> (actual) interface at 127.0.0.1.
>>
>
> Well, I'm aware of that interface, but it is not
> at all what I'm talking about; my suggestion needs
> code in the browser to simulate the way a server
> handles <!--#include ... --> statements.
>
>
> This is not how the "Web of Things" works,
>>
>
> but I don't care about that.
>
> but this is how people arrange collections of
>> reference documents.  This is highly significant
>> in Emergency Management where hardware and
>> connectivity can be disrupted by the event itself
>> ... but you, your laptop and trusty thumb drive
>> survived.  There are Portable Apps ...
>> (http://portableapps.com/), but your trusty thumb
>> drive might not have its favorite laptop around.
>>
>
> My proposal has nothing to do with survival in an
> emergency, it's far more prosaic. If I have all the
> pages and files for a website on a thumb drive, then
> any laptop will work because there will be some
> browser on the laptop.
>
>
>
>
> You can count on at least a working browser on a
>> working laptop, I think.
>>
>
>
> Me too.
>
>
> So, if the browser supports the current standard,
> and if the standard says when a browers is pointed
> at a local file whose name ends in '.shtml' then
> the browser should attempt to handle server side
> includes in the same way a server does.
>
>
>> That said, the document collection should then be
>> XML ... because the style, spin, persuasion,
>> salesmanship whatever you want to call it that
>> XHTML inherits from HTML should not distract or
>> interfere with access.
>>
>
>
> Well, I don't want to step on any toes here, but
> my impression is that XHTML is kinda' moribund and
> that the latest HTML version is actually gaining
> steam. Of course, I could be totally wrong (it
> wouldn't be the first time).
>
> And, it shouldn't matter: if the HTML standard were
> to support my suggestions, presumably that would
> also be supported in XHTML.
>
>
>
>
>> c.f.
>> http://Stratml.us/
>> http://www.rustprivacy.org/2015/stratml/cap_sml/vfsroot/
>>
>>
>> --Gannon
>> --------------------------------------------
>> On Thu, 11/12/15, Steve Comstock <steve@trainersfriend.com> wrote:
>>
>>   Subject: Browser suggestion: local server
>>   To: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>, public-html-comments@w3.org,
>> annevk@opera.com, simonp@opera.com, markdavis@google.com,
>> addison@inter-locale.com, team-liaisons@w3.org, "Ian Jacobs" <ij@w3.org>,
>> "Mark Douglas (CITEC)" <Mark.Douglas@CITEC.COM.AU>, "Patrick Loftus" <
>> patrick.loftus@TNT.COM>, "Ulrik Dobashi Hansen" <ulrik@808.dk>, "Bert
>> Bos" <bert@w3.org>
>>   Date: Thursday, November 12, 2015, 11:08 AM
>>
>>   Guys,
>>
>>   I've been doing a lot of development using .shtml
>>   and server side includes. Testing, however, is a
>>   bit of a pain: I can't really test the includes
>>   are working until I upload all the files to my
>>   server.
>>
>>   It occurs to me it would be terrific if this
>>   could be part of some standard:
>>
>>   * If a browser (user agent) points to a local file,
>>     and if the filename ends in '.shtml', then the
>>     browser should endeavor to process any 'include'
>>     statements in the file in the same way a server
>>     would
>>
>>
>>   This would also be nice because I can put a whole
>>   website on a thumb drive then display it to a meeting
>>   or class without having to actually connect to the
>>   internet! Makes the site much more portable.
>>
>>   Is that reasonable? Desirable? How do I go about
>>   proposing such behavior?
>>
>>
>>   Kind regards,
>>
>>
>>   -Steve Comstock
>>   303-355-2752
>>
>>
>>
>>
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