Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It renders google.com)

Re:Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It r... by busymom0 on Sunday May 18, 2025 @02:55PM (#44023540)

I wish one of these projects would make a browser which only renders text (so texts and links) and no additional support for media (images, videos, audio etc).

I know there is Lynx but having a non-terminal based browser which could do it would be cool.

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Re:Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It r... by tos1 on Sunday May 18, 2025 @03:22PM (#44023721)

Something like Dillo? (You can disable image rendering in Dillo).

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Re:Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It r... by dymk on Sunday May 18, 2025 @03:19PM (#44023701)

Something like Reader View in safari / firefox?

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Re:Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It r... by saagarjha on Monday May 19, 2025 @02:48AM (#44027070)

Those show media.

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Re:Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It r... by monax on Sunday May 18, 2025 @02:58PM (#44023560)

For distraction-free reading?

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Re:Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It r... by revskill on Sunday May 18, 2025 @04:38PM (#44024158)

Then google will use text to show ads.

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Re:Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It r... by busymom0 on Sunday May 18, 2025 @04:41PM (#44024174)

Text based ads would be less distracting.

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Re:Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It r... by jdironman on Sunday May 18, 2025 @09:40PM (#44025840)

Not if they're inline and you've read an ad before you realized it. Like a YouTube sponsor segment. lol

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Re:Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It r... by busymom0 on Sunday May 18, 2025 @09:51PM (#44025887)

Fair. However, text based ads are also very easy to filter out using some sort of extension no?

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Re:Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It r... by saagarjha on Monday May 19, 2025 @02:49AM (#44027075)

Yeah, I actually use NordVPN (this comment’s sponsor) for this.

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Re:Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It r... by II2II on Sunday May 18, 2025 @05:09PM (#44024329)

Remembering when Google only served text based ads.

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Re:Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It r... by pndy on Monday May 19, 2025 @01:33AM (#44026729)

Isn't Ubuntu doing that for at least 3 years or so in terminal during system update?

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Re:Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It r... by Telemakhos on Sunday May 18, 2025 @05:46PM (#44024531)

You might be interested in Richard Stallman's method of browsing the web:

> I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it. [0]

I know you wanted something other than lynx, but you could do this with EWW (Emacs web browser or any graphical browser, provided that your proxy wget dropped the images.

[0] https://www.stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

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Re:Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It r... by stevage on Sunday May 18, 2025 @07:59PM (#44025259)

Wow. At a certain level, I'm glad that people so peculiar exist.

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Re:Show HN: Vaev – A browser engine built from scratch (It r... by Hashex129542 on Sunday May 18, 2025 @06:18PM (#44024712)

Cool idea!

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