Ok

The standard for web is basically the same since the beginning. A folder with a index.html and all other needed files. All I'm saying if you zip a folder that contains a web app, it will work in any device without much effort. A web bundle may never exist and you need to wait for the browsers to start supporting it in maybe if we are luck a few years. If there's a tool to just zip the web app folder, hash it and upload it to some blossom servers them you can build a web app directory that anyone can use, verify etc

WebView also does not run web bundles.

Zero browsers support web bundle. How do you run it?

https://webpack.js.org/

Webpacks looks good from what I just tested since it's just a bundle.js so I could use that

Web bundles was removed from chrome in 2023 and there's no support for it anywhere. Am I looking at the wrong thing?

To ship web apps. A http server lists those apps, the user selects what app he wants, download, extract and start running it locally

You said you have a explicit goal of not supporting tar or zip, just wanted to know why

Why not zips?