Re:Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try
by derefr on Monday March 04, 2019 @08:07PM
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Are you maybe picturing something like Plan9's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_(text_editor), but with the panes being webviews instead of text buffers?
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Re:Firefox Experiments I Would Have Liked to Try
by dllthomas on Monday March 04, 2019 @08:28PM
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Maybe? Not from a visual perspective, but there may well be overlap in other dimensions - I understand Acme exposes a programmatic interface?
The UX I'm picturing is a suite of individual commands that can run from the shell against the current "state of the page", some of which would produce a display in either the shell or a separate window. One of those might be of the form of "render the whole page" but it could be less privileged a view than it is in existing browsers.