I did that once, actually. It was an in-browser shell that piped REST requests and responses between each other. (Specifically, it would pipe the bodies.) It worked, but it didn't really catch on.
Here's a video of it (unfortunately, before it had piping or remote requests): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erVREtQoMCc
Re:DuckDuckGo Terminal Emulator
by pirateking on Thursday December 06, 2012 @01:31AM
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This has actually been a dream of mine for as long as I have been addicted to the command line. Feel free to contact me if you have thought it through further than I have - would be interested in discussing possible implementations.
You guys should really have a look at Web Outside Of Browsers:
http://weboob.org/
Weboob 'Web outside of Browsers', I can get that. But the attempt to put 'boob' in every application name? Am I missing something from a translation from French or is this meant to be comic?
Flatboob: Search for a house.
Wetboobs: Display current weather water levels and to see forecasts.
Nice to see application 'QHaveDate' was altered from 'QHaveSex'.
Let us make it so!