[OpenLayers-Dev] Shapefiles, Again

[Arnie Shore]

I wonder if there's any recent dev't work underway re handling 
shapefiles in some manner. (Nothing promising showed up in my googling.)

This wd presumably be through some JS library, and sans any geo-server 
participation.  I'm using
.OSM("MyBase", my_Path + "${z}/${x}/${y}.png") for tile access in a 
fairly lightweight open source application, and I want to avoid a server 
requirement.

A converter of some type would also work for me here, absent the above's 
availability.

Thanks for any information, folks!