Comment by freitzzz

In my opinion this can't even be labeled as a single HTML file, because it loads external files to complete the app. But back to the question, a "plain html" file doesn't load any external resources and is usually semantically described.

When people talk about a single plain HTML file, it implies that all markup and code is contained in the file and no libraries are being used

If you can run the app without any other files and without internet then it’s plain and a single file.

I have a "plain Python file" that only imports TensorFlow.

Plain html is just html, no JS or CSS. This is my purist non-web dev take.

That's the first thing I thought when opening it. Sure looks like a "make me an app" response that Claude would output.

I mean nothing wrong with that, I needed a silly calculator thingimabob too yesterday (for some CRC checks on a piece of text) and Claude quickly cooked something up for me.

But I'm not writing blog posts about it, releasing the tool in the wild, and claiming I wrote it. Blegh.

Pedantry earns upvotes like bread beggars butter. I don't blame them.

It's a valid point lol. "A single html file" for me is a Ciechanowski page, not something that needs many gigabytes of bloat to compile.