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 -------------------------------------------- On Thu, 11/12/15, Steve Comstock <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: Browser suggestion: local server To: "Ian Hickson" <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], "Ian Jacobs" <[email protected]>, "Mark Douglas (CITEC)" <[email protected]>, "Patrick Loftus" <[email protected]>, "Ulrik Dobashi Hansen" <[email protected]>, "Bert Bos" <[email protected]> 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
