Re:Browsh – A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to ...
by ziftface on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @08:05AM
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You're right, but unfortunately that's not the world we live in. Those text based browsers don't work for a lot of websites.
Re:Browsh – A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to ...
by t-3 on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @09:10AM
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I spent a few months earlier in the year entirely in the console using links as my browser, and it worked just as well, and in some ways better than firefox with js disabled (ie. lots of sites that give a blank page or cookie popups just work). My main issues that led to returning to X were with the OpenBSD console having some annoyances WRT UTF-8 in tmux and not being able to figure out how to use a smaller/higher resolution font.
Re:Browsh – A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to ...
by octoberfranklin on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @08:20AM
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Be the change you want to see in the world.
Re:Browsh – A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to ...
by sylware on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @08:48AM
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Yep. I am trying to do something, but I realized that it means dealing with ppl which are severely brain-washed, or 101 scammers (web planned obsolescence).
It won't happen peacefully, my guess is it requires strong regulation, at least for critical sites (like those from the administration).
One of the main issues is the corpo(state?)-sponsored hackers paid to sabotage the alternatives.
noscript/basic (x)html browsers are not grotesquely and absurdely complex and massive (including their SDK) and though, can perform a good enough job for bazillions of services provided over the internet.
Namely, even if you have an army of coders with infinite time and code a lean and simple C (C89 with benign bits of C99/C11) "modern" web engine, it won't change the core of the problem.