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Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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Really cool! I couldn't figure out if I could enter values in inputs (e.g. go to google, perform a search). Might be out of scope or I might have missed something? It's super cool. I really like it!

You can! It can just be hard sometimes to find where to click the mouse :/ I need to find a better way to provide visual cues for input boxes.

Thanks :)

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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Some of you may have seen this before under its previous incarnation of "Texttop". Then it was just a hack, but I got some great feedback, so I've spent most of the last 12 months turning it into something serious. It's morphed into more than a mere TTY gimmick. That UNIX philosophy of text being the "universal interface" has somewhat unexpectedly risen to the forefront, such that Browsh is now essentially a text bro…

Out of pure curiosity, how much are you profiting currently out of it?

Since launch I've had just under £100 in donations.

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure that's true, for example elinks doesn't support SNI: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1527856

elinks and lynx are completely different browsers. Lynx is actively developed and can link against recent versions of OpenSSL, GnuTLS, and LibreSSL. The latest release came out yesterday: http://lynx.invisible-island.net/release/ Lynx can render HTML5 web pages. Not sure what WebGL has to do with a web browser that is meant for terminal emulators. CSS is not supported in text browsers in general (not all of them are…

apart from ssl, there are slight differences: last time I checked, "lynx" will do a http/1.0 request. Ubuntu nginx-common config suggestions do not ship gzipped content below http/1.1 if enabled without change (gzip_http_version 1.0). "w3m" is the same. "links" does http/1.1 without explicit runtime argument. I need to measure if this makes a difference in the general web (or with a day of my browsing history). http/1.0 sure does receive compressed content with "accept-encoding: gzip", but I'm curious if the http-version will make a big difference. Firefox will give you http/2.0 I stumbled on this detail when I was capped to 2 kbytes/s and tried different cli browser. I applaud the authors effort. The docs should mention the bandwith benefits are gained primarily if you have a remote to ssh into where you can setup a firefox install.

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

#198

$ ssh brow.sh All of Browsh's servers are currently busy. Please try again soon. Connection to brow.sh closed. Seems like a cool way to do a demo for something that's a bit painful to install on macOS (would love to see $ brew install browsh). I'll have to give it another look once the HN effect has died down.

For what it's worth, I got the same error, and just downloaded the linked binary [1] and after a quick chmod+x it was up and running (I had a new-ish Firefox in my Applications folder).

[1]: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/releases/download/v1.2....

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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Some of you may have seen this before under its previous incarnation of "Texttop". Then it was just a hack, but I got some great feedback, so I've spent most of the last 12 months turning it into something serious. It's morphed into more than a mere TTY gimmick. That UNIX philosophy of text being the "universal interface" has somewhat unexpectedly risen to the forefront, such that Browsh is now essentially a text bro…

actually one problem you have here, and you're probably realizing from the responses, is a problem I had with a personal project that could be used to build lots of things that people wanted, but in itself was not a thing people want. In order to monetize you need to build one of the things people want, but in doing so you put focus into one area and stop improving the generic base of everything, as well as not produ…

I've found myself running into this same thing as well. An obscure sort of problem no one warns you about ;)

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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Some of you may have seen this before under its previous incarnation of "Texttop". Then it was just a hack, but I got some great feedback, so I've spent most of the last 12 months turning it into something serious. It's morphed into more than a mere TTY gimmick. That UNIX philosophy of text being the "universal interface" has somewhat unexpectedly risen to the forefront, such that Browsh is now essentially a text bro…

Stupid question: how do you follow links without a mouse? e.g. with Lynx you'd use the arrow keys / enter - this doesn't seem to work here, and there's nothing obvious in the keybindings document.
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