From 604e3bee87155f211dd1f77230f3dc2d9a185048 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jacob Strieb Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2019 09:44:19 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 66bce7f..2631090 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ - Share code that others can edit and modify - Clone web pages with the bookmarklet (under active development) - "Publish" web pages instantaneously -- Published links never stop working and cannot be taken down +- Published links never stop working and ~cannot be taken down~ function as long as this site is trusted and extant - No dependencies - No signups - No tracking @@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ Web pages in URLs are definitely not how things on the web were meant to be done Furthermore, URL Pages is very much a proof of concept, and should not be relied upon for anything consequential. +Read the code and understand it before using so that you understand any associated risks. The codebase was written with readers in-mind. Since the codebase is intentionally short, it can be read and digested fairly quickly if you have prior experience with client-side web applications. + +I originally conceived this as a simple, static CodePen clone, but I felt the "publishing" of pages as URLs was an interesting idea. So I decided to present that aspect of it front and center, even though it wasn't really the point of the project at the beginning. About a year ago, I had a proof of concept version that I ended up using fairly frequently for sharing quick HTML/CSS/JavaScript experiments (never as a means of seriously publishing and sharing censorship-proof content). I found that if its use is limited to that case, it is actually very handy and robust! + ## Examples @@ -72,3 +76,4 @@ The bookmarklet enables some of the most interesting and promising opportunities - Make the buttons better/more efficient (don't update `href` on every key press) - Figure out and publish max URL sizes for various URL shorteners - Add features +- Add option to "publish" pages using base65536 as suggested [here](https://github.com/jstrieb/urlpages/issues/5)