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by recursive 197 days ago
Why would html rendering require a network connection? It doesn't seem to on my machine.
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vatsachak 197 days ago
Things like LaTeX equation rendering are hosted on a cdn
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krapp 197 days ago
They can be but don't need to be. Any javascript can be localized like HTML and CSS.
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vatsachak 197 days ago
That's fair, but imagine trying to get the average reader up to speed with something like npm.
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krapp 196 days ago
You don't actually need npm either. You can literally just distribute everything - html, css, images and js in a zipped folder and open it locally.
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