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

Post by shubb » Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 1:04 AM UTC

adamredwoods wrote: post #32

tombh wrote: post #2

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…

My guess is to try upselling features like anonymous browsing, ad-blocking, etc. Other ideas would require discovering use-case scenarios for corporate situations: can it be used as a cms-front end or a way to focus on text for localization? a11y testing? You never know.

Post by tombh » Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 1:08 AM UTC

shubb wrote: post #41

adamredwoods wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My guess is to try upselling features like anonymous browsing, ad-blocking, etc. Other ideas would require discovering use-case scenarios for corporate situations: can it be used as a cms-front end or a way to focus on text for localization? a11y testing? You never know.

Maybe this would be useful to commercial shipping companies who run thier net over satellite and similar. That would work nicely as a hosted service with an app. Like a more aggressive version of opera's bandwidth reduction. The military might have similar problems. It's not really ready fir consumers yet though.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 1:18 AM UTC

mahesh_rm wrote: post #16

bwag wrote: post #14

> Its main purpose is to significantly reduce bandwidth and thus both increase browsing speeds and decrease bandwidth costs. How does it reduce bandwidth exactly? It still has to grab all the html/css/js for the site being rendered.

does it fetch images? if it does not, there you go..

Post by theamk » Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 1:19 AM UTC

tombh wrote: post #42

johnklos wrote: post #40

...aaand it's written in Go... So it's modern in that it won't run on anything but popular platforms, and text-based in that it shows you text using a huge, multi-gigabyte program. Looks like links / lynx aren't going to be replaced any time soon.

Links doesn't even support modern SSL :/ The modern age requires a multi-gigabyte program to use the Internet, that's just our reality. So the whole point of Browsh is that you can now offload this from your local machine (eg. to a remote VM) and re-experience the net as pure text, how it used to be.

Post by aumerle » Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 1:24 AM UTC