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Thanks. Yes it's like the retro 8-bit style, it has a certain charm I agree. Damn, I can't believe I missed that! I fixed it in the code and will deploy soon with some other fixes.
Note your donate link https://html.brow.sh/https://www.brow.sh/donate/ 'broke' the QR code. Amazing work!
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I mean for example one of the big problems Browsh has is not rendering text that web developers have hidden in the DOM to be displayed on some kind of mouse interaction. So Browsh has to ask JS to query the `display: hidden`, `z-index`, etc values to ensure that it doesn't render text that is not intended to be displayed until after an interaction.
Displaying hidden text is one of the places where text browsers can "fix" broken web pages. There are broken web pages that hide the text you want to read until you click on some JavaScript modal, or some "Click to continue reading" link/button that breaks scrolling. w3m displays hidden text and greatly improves readability on many web pages. You can argue that using the CSS display property is a bad hack around the…
Are you saying that ignoring CSS rules for hidden content improves readability? I find this very hard to understand. For example something like "Thanks for submitting this form" appearing on page load is not an improvement to readability.
are there any working examples of WebGL? i can't seem to get any on threejs.org to run in Chrome 67 or Firefox 62.0b6
Embarrassingly, I need to remove WebGL from Browsh's features, as WebGL doesn't work in Firefox's headless mode. I certainly saw it working in the early days when I wasn't using Firefox headless in order to debug the injected CSS Browsh uses to render pages. Sigh, so I best remove 'WebGL' from the homepage :(
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…
Regarding financing, perhaps you should consider collaboration with the Tor Project. Many Tor users disable Javascript, because Javascript sometimes has anonymizing vulnerabilities. But disabling Javascript cripples many websites. But I can type html.brow.sh/ https://example.com via my Tor browser and get a non crippled website, even with Javascript disabled. This is a very practical use case and I think many will wa…
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I've had the idea to make a webextension that transparently proxies all top-level URL bar requests to html.brow.sh, that way you can click on links in other applications that open in your browser and instantly get the Browsh version. I think it could a fantastic resource for those in the world that have slow and/or expensive internet. First though I really need to improve html.brow.sh
I wonder if it would be a benefit for EU people who just want to read the site and not get a modal that tells them if they don't accept privacy invasions you can't read the page. I'm getting tired of writing down GDPR violations to report.
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…
Will you put it in Flatpak or Snap?
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…
Run it as a service. I send in a URL and maybe TERM type, you send back the rendering complete with escape sequences etc. You might not see the need for this, but others will. I could see it being used in some back end workflow.
`curl https://text.brow.sh/https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17... | grep snarfy`
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For sure that's definitely an option, for both the SSH service and the html.brow.sh service. As people get to learn about Browsh let's see if there are any takers.
But why wait? How you prefer to know? With $$ in the bank or hope for a tweet?
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What do you think of its potential for use in regions with slow and/or expensive Internet (South America seems to be the worst off here), where I could come to some arrangement with a local NGO/GO to fund server costs and development?
You absolutely could, Opera browser was doing something (I think they proxied images and similar files) before it gets to someone's screen. If you can compress large images (and you'd have to know they're images cause you gotta render them right?) in such a way that they're not visually distorted it would be worth paying for. The harder thing is trust, trusting you to not change any images. On the other hand that'd m…
I've got a good feeling about text.brow.sh, it's so simple. As you say I just need to work on the consistency of what it returns.
Thanks for your thoughts!
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…
> I'd be interested in any opinions here about how to financially support this project. At the very least I'd just love to somehow make this my job. One of the cases where developers still use text based browsers is in attempting to check accessibility of websites. For many large enterprises, there's a legal or contractual requirement to ensure a certain level of accessibility for users with disabilities.