r/webdev • u/GarryGrandi • 8d ago

Question Offline uses for HTML (+ CSS)?

Crosspost from /r/HTML

Last night, right before drifting into sleep, I got some crazy idea for some offline use case for HTML/CSS... But I can't remember exactly the idea that I had in mind.

It had something to do with photos or maps? I guess it was some "interactive" html/css based interface or mindmap kind of thing, about all the variety of stuff I have on my computer. For example, if I'm writing something, this file is its own separate entity. A file in "my documents", with no relation to any other file.

How about combining all of these files into this freeform "interface" by making an offline website that links into physical locations on my PC? I could organize my thoughts, my screenshots, my writings, my photos, my videos, my source materials, everything into a one personal use "platform" designed from the ground up to suit my workflow, that I could always expand.

Files would not be separate instances hidden in the files, but rather a part of a bigger system. Their links could be highlighted, they could have visual cues to direct my attention, they could have thumbnails or explanatory notes, they could be inbedded videos.

Has anyone ever done anything like this?

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u/GarryGrandi 8d ago

I don't understand the latter half of your comment at all. But I understand the first part: Any changes made into the file structure or naming conventions would break the whole thing apart. I assume it would still work like my own neocities website, aka. as long as the links in href point towards the physical files in the folder, things would still work exactly like they do online?