diff --git a/pkg/standalone/content_tag.js b/pkg/standalone/content_tag.js
index ffac649b59d3c00ee025807971082cfea4e1cb2c..511c7ccf57b16e2d95dcd94da737d79ef170387f 100644
--- a/pkg/standalone/content_tag.js
+++ b/pkg/standalone/content_tag.js
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 let wasm;
 
+const { TextDecoder, TextEncoder } = require('util');
 const cachedTextDecoder = (typeof TextDecoder !== 'undefined' ? new TextDecoder('utf-8', { ignoreBOM: true, fatal: true }) : { decode: () => { throw Error('TextDecoder not available') } } );
 
 if (typeof TextDecoder !== 'undefined') { cachedTextDecoder.decode(); };
diff --git a/pkg/standalone.js b/pkg/standalone.js
index cb50046539df05b41dcc842ffb98e354236f8d26..10eea2962ffd804905d85057bb25d5b30b4d2e11 100644
--- a/pkg/standalone.js
+++ b/pkg/standalone.js
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
-import init from "./standalone/content_tag.js";
+import { initSync } from "./standalone/content_tag.js";
+import module from "./standalone/content_tag_bg.wasm";
 export { Preprocessor  } from "./standalone/content_tag.js";
 
-await init();
+initSync(module);