I have developed a few small, self-contained utilities that each work in a single HTML file. I’d love to be able to access these directly within Obsidian. Currently, links starting with “file:///” redirect me out of Obsidian.
Proposed solution
It would be great if the Web Viewer could support local HTML files. This way, I could view my utilities right inside Obsidian. To address any security concerns, perhaps we could implement a user permission option or a whitelist for trusted local folders.
I would also like to request that local html files be supported in web viewer. I don’t understand how local files could pose more of a security risk than external sites. My use case is that I archive pages using SingleFile (from gildas-lormeau) and would like to view those pages in the context of my vault rather than having to use an external browser.
Yes, I thought the web viewer might allow local html files. I have continued to use the HTML Reader plugin by Nuthrash which has been working nicely for me for local html. I only use it for storing a formatted version of my emails which I save to Obsidian. It seems to work fine in combination with the Web viewer core plugin.
Yes please, this would be so great! I also have a local project which runs through a html file system (basically a local website) and having it in obsidian would make it so much cleaner to connect my notes and workflow with it.