WICG/webpackage on Hacker News

…Would W3C Web Bundles and HTTP SXG Signed Exchanges solve for this use case? WICG/webpackage: https://github.com/WICG/webpackage#packaging-tools "Use Cases and Requirements for Web Packages" https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-yassk…

comment by westurner · 2026-02-15 · in Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format

…Isolated Web Apps https://github.com/WICG/isolated-web-apps/issues/1 or for example via webpackage https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/issues/576 The first step along the way though is making actually secure web apps possible. Aren't secure…

comment by MzHN · 2024-07-18 · in Show HN: I made a privacy-friendly and free image, audio and video converter

…it seemed mainly to be a small handful of engineers & most seemed to have moved on from the effort. https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/issues/713 Given the frosty response in the comments they got I guess I'm not shocked, but in general it…

comment by jauntywundrkind · 2024-05-03 · in HTTP Message Signatures

…Webpackage seems to be doing OK ish. But yeah we bundles specifically do seem to be all expired. https://github.com/WICG/webpackage#specifications

comment by rektide · 2023-03-27 · in Show HN: An alternative web-like system design

…(and SRI) - components of W3C Web Packaging - may be useful for a signed WASM package format: https://github.com/WICG/webpackage#packaging-tools How is WASM distinct from an unsigned binary blob?

comment by westurner · 2022-12-07 · in New Docker Desktop: Run WASM Applications Alongside Linux Containers in Docker

…still think webpackage/web bundles is more likely to gain traction & to manifest into what we want. https://github.com/WICG/webpackage

comment by rektide · 2022-09-01 · in About the Memento Project

…& greatly fix everything that ready is. With minor, layered, small, principled enhancements. [1] https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/issues/597

comment by rektide · 2022-05-05 · in Bluesky – Authenticated Data EXperiment

Is this still on track to become a standard? https://github.com/WICG/webpackage

comment by megaman821 · 2022-03-02 · in SingleFile: Save a complete web page into a single HTML file

…views: there's a lot of space between "ads should be a lot better" and "ads should not exist". [1] https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/issues/624 [2] https://github.com/WICG/turtledove/blob/main/FLEDGE.md

comment by jefftk · 2021-12-19 · in An iframe from googlesyndication.com tries to access the camera and microphone

Not sure if this is entirely what you're after, but check out https://github.com/WICG/webpackage

comment by Fudgel · 2021-12-17 · in ArchiveTeam Warrior backing up Reddit

…date as it did when it was initially crawled was one of the things we destroyed along with AMP. [1] https://github.com/WICG/webpackage

comment by notatoad · 2021-11-08 · in Faking Twitter unfurling to phish you

…origin's servers. I'm hoping eventually we get a fairly content-addressed network, via urls. [1] https://github.com/WICG/webpackage

comment by rektide · 2021-06-28 · in Ask HN: You have one shot to redesign the Internet – what do you change?

…for a Web that is basically ChromeOS. Ever heard of Web Bundles? https://web.dev/web-bundles/ https://github.com/WICG/webpackage

comment by pjmlp · 2021-05-03 · in The End of AMP

…[2] https://github.com/google/fledge-shim [3] https://github.com/WICG/turtledove/issues/161 [4] https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/issues/624 [5] https://www.jefftk.com/donations

comment by jefftk · 2021-04-28 · in GitHub blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages

…the entire included base64 content. There are better ways, but sadly nothing cross platform: * https://github.com/WICG/webpackage * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webarchive

comment by est31 · 2020-12-31 · in HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash

…bodies & TAG can eventually come to harmony & agree, & the web improves. Peters dissent thread: https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/issues/551 Personally I greatly look forward to WebBundles. It will radically improve the JS module…

comment by rektide · 2020-09-06 · in Google proposed Web Bundles could threaten the Web as we know it

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Web Bundles Break Ad Blockers

story by feross · 2020-09-03 · 0 comments

> that Google will make a tool to create WebBundles The tool exists: https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/tree/master/go/bundle > that tool will include well-known third-party resources in the bundle as a performance optimization The tool…

comment by jefftk · 2020-08-30 · in WebBundles are built for content-addressable networks

…blockers once and for all. You can read a discussion about some of the issues that it causes here - https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/issues/551 Of course, the Brave browser also have some concerns about it -…

comment by aclelland · 2020-08-30 · in WebBundles are built for content-addressable networks

…it wouldn't be confused with code mangling. This comment illustrates the point very well imo: https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/issues/551#issuecomment-6...

comment by AriaMinaei · 2020-08-26 · in WebBundles harmful to content blocking, security tools, and the open web

…strategy of a 'fingers-in-the-ears, everything is fine, what are you talking about' approach) [1] https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/issues/551#issuecomment-6...

comment by justsee · 2020-08-26 · in WebBundles harmful to content blocking, security tools, and the open web

> I'm confused about what a WebBundle is. https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/blob/master/explainer.md

comment by jefftk · 2020-08-26 · in WebBundles harmful to content blocking, security tools, and the open web

…ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21617291 For example, I'm currently exploring whether https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/blob/master/explainers/su... can increase the security and privacy of ad loading and rendering. > bundling…

comment by jefftk · 2020-07-30 · in Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case

…So this is actually probably more secure compared to something like https in that regard. [0]: https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/blob/6cc3237b36c2f9ce7534...

comment by joshuamorton · 2020-01-22 · in Every Google result now looks like an ad

…that support the technology: https://amp.dev/documentation/guides-and-tutorials/optimize-... https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/blob/master/explainer.md

comment by gregable · 2019-12-05 · in How to fight back against Google AMP as a web user and a web developer

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Apple Response on Web Packages: Avoiding Built-In Tracking in Signed Packages

story by walterbell · 2019-04-21 · 0 comments

Signed Exchanges are basically that but with cryptographic guarantee of no transform by caches. See https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/blob/master/explainer.md [Working on AMP at Google]

comment by cramforce · 2019-04-17 · in AMP pages displaying your own domain

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Web Packaging Format Explainer

story by Tomte · 2019-03-25 · 0 comments

…URL issue you are describing. https://amphtml.wordpress.com/2018/11/13/developer-preview-o... [1] - https://github.com/WICG/webpackage

comment by jeffjose · 2019-01-30 · in Google Takes Its First Steps Toward Killing the URL

…preload a page in a privacy-preserving way. Webpackaging will allow doing this without AMP though: https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/blob/master/explainer.md (Disclosure: I work at Google on making ads be AMP.)

comment by jefftk · 2019-01-14 · in Ask HN: Is it just me or is the AMP project making everything slower?

…[2] https://contributor.google.com/ [3] https://fundingchoices.google.com [4] https://github.com/WICG/webpackage

comment by niftich · 2018-11-19 · in The Media Industry and the “Make-Google-Pay” Fantasy

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Web Packaging Format Explainer

story by Tomte · 2018-11-04 · 0 comments

…ttps://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CSP [2]: https://github.com/WICG/feature-policy [3]: https://github.com/WICG/webpackage

comment by Ajedi32 · 2018-10-19 · in New in Chrome 70

…is assumed from the start, and the surfacer of the content becomes decoupled from its author. [1] https://github.com/WICG/webpackage

comment by niftich · 2018-09-17 · in The Rise and Contentious Fork of RSS

Hopefully web packages⁽¹⁾ can eventually solve this issue. 1. https://github.com/WICG/webpackage

comment by Sephr · 2018-08-17 · in OpenPGPjs has passed an independent security audit

I believe this sort of thing will be possible via the [Web Package Standard][1] [1]: https://github.com/WICG/webpackage

comment by Ajedi32 · 2018-08-16 · in OpenPGPjs has passed an independent security audit

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Web Packaging Format Explainer

story by Tomte · 2018-05-26 · 0 comments

The same way they're trying to fix this problem with AMP: https://github.com/WICG/webpackage (see also: https://amphtml.wordpress.com/2018/01/09/improving-urls-for-... ) Even if you can't package up and ship all of your traditional site to…

comment by ocdtrekkie · 2018-02-24 · in AMP: the missing controversy

…standard" is part of the Web Packaging standard, which is, indeed, the whole point of the article. https://github.com/WICG/webpackage

comment by dfabulich · 2018-02-21 · in How to Replace Google's AMP Without Slowing It Down

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Web Package

story by dedalus · 2018-02-21 · 0 comments

…package. I think that could be a nice way to solve the omnipresent dependency on servers for PWAs. https://github.com/WICG/webpackage

comment by JepZ · 2018-02-21 · in How to Replace Google's AMP Without Slowing It Down

…about the Web Packaging standard proposed in the article to replace AMP: everybody could use it. https://github.com/WICG/webpackage Even HN could serve up prerendered Web Packages for all of the sites on the front page. The result would be…

comment by dfabulich · 2018-02-20 · in How to Replace Google's AMP Without Slowing It Down

…what the Dat project is doing could be interesting in this regard, or web packages as described in https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/blob/master/explainer.md

comment by fabrice_d · 2018-01-15 · in Requiring secure contexts for all new features

…frequent complaint about AMP. Just one that's at odds with the one the letter is requesting. [1] https://github.com/WICG/webpackage

comment by niftich · 2018-01-09 · in A letter about Google AMP

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story by jashkenas · 2018-01-09 · 1 comment

…the page in question is being served by Google's AMP cache rather than the original server. [1]: https://github.com/WICG/webpackage

comment by Ajedi32 · 2018-01-09 · in Improving URLs for AMP Pages

…(secure messaging, financial, cryptocurrency). It sounds like this is a "nice to have" use-case: https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/blob/master/draft-yasskin... I've almost been able to abuse Service Workers for this purpose. After the…

comment by tlrobinson · 2018-01-09 · in Improving URLs for AMP Pages

…potential in decoupling origin verification from TLS connections. Web Packaging Format Explainer: https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/blob/master/explainer.md

comment by jopsen · 2018-01-09 · in Improving URLs for AMP Pages

…still digesting what's all involved. [1] https://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/distributed-content/ [2] https://github.com/WICG/webpackage [3] https://github.com/WICG/webpackage/blob/master/explainer.md

comment by niftich · 2018-01-09 · in Improving URLs for AMP Pages

Web Packaging [ https://github.com/WICG/webpackage ] allows the authority over an origin to delegate serving to a third party (and support things like offline serving). This is similar, but better than e.g. what a CDN does today, because…

comment by cramforce · 2018-01-09 · in Improving URLs for AMP Pages