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The killer feature could be a file type named after the kinds of websites people make. Say .blog or .forum or .store or .social perhaps even .aggregator or .hn (lol) each would work like a straight jacket or like a website on a platform (.blog like blogger, .store like shopify etc) it could be distributed and insanely fast. Every other link just opens in the normal browser.

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fiddlerwoaroof4y ago

It's interesting to think about this sort of thing: interactive forms generated from OpenAPI specs? Some way to plug-in handlers for specific mime-types? etc.

easton4y ago

This is the dream, honestly. Dynamic form creation from specs. PowerShell has something like it (for a function it will create you a ugly form that you can render), but if you could deliver a OpenAPI spec and have Bootstrap (or whatever) UI on the frontend automatically generated.

kelnos4y ago

The Swagger UI[0] is more a documentation/exploration tool for APIs, but it shows enough of what you can do that I don't think it'd be all that difficult to generate something that you'd want to put on your own website.

[0] https://swagger.io/tools/swagger-ui/

girvo4y ago

This is not quite what you mean, but I've used it before to decent success:

https://github.com/rjsf-team/react-jsonschema-form

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