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Re:Textual Web: TUIs for the Web by nine_k on Thursday September 07, 2023 @12:54PM (#37421902)
Many TUI programs, e.g. Midnight Commander, can use mouse, but are perfectly operable with just a keyboard. Same with Emacs or Vim in terminal mode.

This is more about blending in among GUI tools, which is also important.

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Re:Textual Web: TUIs for the Web by eterps on Thursday September 07, 2023 @01:25PM (#37422402)
> This is more about blending in among GUI tools, which is also important.

This is what I find difficult to understand, why is that important? And to whom?

It made sense 35 years ago when MS-DOS was shipped by default and you just had to make do.

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Re:Textual Web: TUIs for the Web by nine_k on Thursday September 07, 2023 @01:46PM (#37422764)
Right now on my desktop I see 4 TUI windows, and 11 GUI windows.

A full-featured web browser or a video chat client can't be realistically made TUI. I could have run Emacs in TUI mode, but I appreciate variable font support in non-code texts I write.

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Re:Textual Web: TUIs for the Web by makapuf on Thursday September 07, 2023 @02:52PM (#37423803)
For the videochat client it could be one video window with several panes (PIP, main+side small, ...) with a textual interface for controls, chatting etc.
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