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Web Bundle Examples

How does this work?

At the moment you must have Chrome 79+ with Web Bundles Enabled for these to work.

Flag: chrome://flags/#web-bundles

Useful introduction: https://web.dev/web-bundles/

Spec repo: https://github.com/WICG/webpackage

What's here?

  1. Moby-Dick as a very simple HTML bundle, with no Javascript.

  2. Flatland (only part one) as very simple example of the W3C Audiobook specification as a web bundle. Once you play the first audio, it will autoplay the rest. There's also navigation between sections.

What's not here?

Anything fancy. Most more complex ebooks I would make require iframes, and at the moment Chrome won't load an iframe src from a bundle. I'm assuming that will change with time.

Why should I care?

  1. ebooks without reading systems

  2. possible accessible replacement for PDFs

  3. ad-hoc app distribution

  4. shareable web content without servers! I think in some ways this really lowers the barrier to participation on the web on your own terms. Can you imagine creating a beautiful, artful letter in HTML to send to a friend?

Why is my code so bad?

I'm not a real developer.

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