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Re:Browsh – A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to ... by layer8 on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @10:18AM (#31492441)
I mean normal text being rendered with a variable-width font instead of as monospace, for better readability. When I was younger I didn’t care much, but as my eyesight is getting worse, monospace text is becoming more straining to read.

Rendering variable-width fonts in a TUI-like layout environment isn’t exactly straightforward obviously, but I’m sure it could be solved adequately. The point is to still retain the snappiness of TUIs by not going full GUI and by still limiting layout to the coarse textmode grid.

Re:Browsh – A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to ... by jefurii on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @12:14PM (#31493976)
I'm imagining programming Python using a variable-width font and that makes my head hurt. :)
Re:Browsh – A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to ... by tombh on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @10:28AM (#31492586)
Oh yes, that makes sense. I wonder if anybody's ever attempted that before