Re: Browser suggestion: local server

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.  This is not how the "Web of Things" works, 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.  You can count on at least a working browser on a working laptop, I think.

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.

c.f.
http://Stratml.us/
http://www.rustprivacy.org/2015/stratml/cap_sml/vfsroot/


--Gannon
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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

Received on Thursday, 12 November 2015 18:36:35 UTC