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kalafut / wwv

WWV Simulator

https://wwv.mcodes.org

MIT License

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Standalone app #37

Open kalafut opened 1 year ago

kalafut commented 1 year ago

Email request:

Any chance of a windows software program that does the same thing? I know a lot of ham radio operators would love it for off internet applications

kalafut commented 1 year ago

It is unlikely I'd build any native apps for this, primarily because of time constraints. But I do think there are a couple of more doable options:

Electron app. I've never built one, so it might be interesting. I'm not thrilled about shipping a 100MB clock though.
Go binary. I could build a tiny server and bundle the assets into the binary. Running wwv would pop open a local browser and you could run the site without internet. This route seems pretty simple and gets the job done.

kj7rrv commented 11 months ago

What about using a service worker so the Web app works offline?

kj7rrv commented 11 months ago

Or, would it be possible to create a static site from it? That could just be downloaded as a ZIP file, unzipped, and used offline.

kalafut commented 10 months ago

The site can be run offline as long as any sort of local web server, even just Python, is available (as mentioned in the README). I'm not familiar with how it would be done just referencing local files (i.e., simply unzip and open index.html) since those are not possible to fetch via Javascript.

I think there are several not-too-difficult options, but I've just not had time to look into them. I'm happy to evaluate POCs that others compose, though.

kj7rrv commented 10 months ago

Oh, I hadn't seen that in the README. That's probably the simplest solution.