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kkuchta / css-only-chat

A truly monstrous async web chat using no JS whatsoever on the frontend
MIT License
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But why! #1

Open aaronsnoswell opened 5 years ago

aaronsnoswell commented 5 years ago

:O Oh the horror!

aaronsnoswell commented 5 years ago

Seriously, thanks for the laugh though :P You're on HN

vsviridov commented 5 years ago

Every day we stray further from god's light...

leeoniya commented 5 years ago

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kkuchta commented 5 years ago

realJoshByrnes commented 5 years ago

IFRAME + INPUT element = No JS (and doesn't lose chat history) ...except it would be much more user-friendly with keyboard support.

TreeOfSelf commented 1 year ago

Actually this is extremely useful for privacy and security if someone was running a TOR browser with javascript disabled and wanted to use an instant chat. Only problem is its written in ruby 🤢

man I wish CSS/HTML had better options for variable URL names, could actually make this decently accessible.

IFRAME + INPUT element = No JS (and doesn't lose chat history) ...except it would be much more user-friendly with keyboard support.

Yeah this is a great point. Only thing is, then it wouldn't TECHNICALLY be an "instant" chat through things like TOR as things like reloading a page take a lot longer then receiving writes. I suppose having the received messages be through long-polling and the send message be through an iframe would be the best trade-off.

realJoshByrnes commented 1 year ago

Only thing is, then it wouldn't TECHNICALLY be an "instant" chat through things like TOR as things like reloading a page take a lot longer then receiving writes.

Using an iframe for chat output (long polling) and an input (in another iframe, so the whole page doesn't reload) would be significantly quicker than this, no matter the connection.

This project sends a new request every keypress... er... key click. I suspect (but could be wrong) that this was more to highlight the possibilities of CSS, rather than designed to be a real world example.

lucasburlingham commented 1 year ago

Because it's the only messaging "platform" that works cross-platform from a DS if you don't have a phone but your friends do...