Merge branch 'main' of github.com:simdutf/browserbase64

Author: lemire

.github/workflows/deploy-pages.yml

@@ -4,29 +4,31 @@ on:
   push:
     branches: [ main ]
 
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+  pages: write
+  id-token: write
+
 jobs:
   build:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    permissions:
-      contents: read
-      pages: write
-      id-token: write
     steps:
       - name: Checkout repository
         uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Upload Pages artifact
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v3
         with:
-          name: pages
-          path: html
+          path: html    # folder that contains index.html etc.
 
   deploy:
     needs: build
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    permissions:
-      pages: write
-      id-token: write
+    environment:
+      name: github-pages
+      url: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.page_url }}
+
     steps:
       - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
-        uses: actions/deploy-pages@v1
+        id: deployment
+        uses: actions/deploy-pages@v4

README.md

@@ -1,4 +1,10 @@
 # browserbase64
 
-This is an in-browser base64 benchmark.
-s
+
+Base64 is a binary-to-text encoding scheme that converts arbitrary binary data (like images, files, or any sequence of bytes) into a safe, printable ASCII string using a 64-character alphabet (A–Z, a–z, 0–9, +, /).
+Browsers use it in JavaScript to embedding binary data directly in code or HTML or to transmitting binary data  as text.
+
+This is an in-browser base64 benchmark:
+
+- [Visit the benchmark](https://simdutf.github.io/browserbase64/html).
+