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Re: HyperTerm – JS/HTML/CSS Terminal

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Post by riskable »

webXL wrote: post #111

imgcat[1] is one of my favorite terminal innovations as of late. I thought I'd take a long shot and see if it worked since that functionality seems like it would be simple for a browser-engine-based terminal to handle, but sadly no-go. I smell pull request. [1] https://www.iterm2.com/documentation-images.html

Gate One (web-based terminal) has had this functionality for years:

https://github.com/liftoff/GateOne/

Just 'cat someimage.jpeg' or 'cat someimage.png' and it'll display it right there in the terminal. Works great if I do say so myself (I wrote it =).

Re: HyperTerm – JS/HTML/CSS Terminal

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Post by pikachu_is_cool »

SwellJoe wrote: post #94
pikachu_is_cool wrote: post #86

Hopefully this inspires someone to make a Lua/Python scriptable terminal. I'm not a big fan of the web stack. This is a pretty cool concept though.

ES6 fixes most of my biggest problems with JavaScript as a language, and adds a few things I didn't think of, but are nice. Generators, destructuring assignment, nicer class syntax, etc. I found this series of blog posts helpful: https://hacks.mozilla.org/category/es6-in-depth/ Sure, there's still a lot of old code out there to read, but I would guess this project is using mostly modern patterns. Most Node projects d…

Yeah I'm sure JS is better than before but I just don't like the web stack in general. I don't like using CSS/HTML/DOM.

Re: HyperTerm – JS/HTML/CSS Terminal

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Post by nathancahill »

benbenolson wrote: post #106

There was another project that's extremely similar to this posted a week or so ago, and it got a lot of flak for existing; I don't think very many commenters agreed with its existence (except, perhaps, as an educational exercise for the programmer). That project was posted here: http://rungoterminal.com/ This, however, is executed and presented much better than that other project, and catered towards the correct crow…

> "it got a lot of flak for existing"

Oh wow, you weren't kidding: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12046778

Re: HyperTerm – JS/HTML/CSS Terminal

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Post by grantmc09 »

betenoire wrote: post #28
dsl wrote: post #19

The folks who make HyperTerm might have something to say about your product naming... http://www.hilgraeve.com/hyperterminal/ Edit: I'm surprised more people in the HN crowd aren't familiar with HyperTerm (Yes that is the name and what everyone called it for many many years) It was bundled with Windows up to 7, and is still used heavily in industrial control areas.

not the same name, but close. (I can't find the text "HyperTerm" on that page)

You sure? Because I can. http://i.imgur.com/3WnYw4H.png

Re: HyperTerm – JS/HTML/CSS Terminal

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Post by codezero »

wtetzner wrote: post #103
codezero wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On my system, a long running Slack process uses about as much memory as a Finder window.

But what about power usage? Battery life is important.

I can't say I've measured it quantitatively, but it doesn't appear to have a huge effect, but I also don't need to be untethered all day long.

When I check the battery status on my Mac, only Chrome is listed in the "Apps that use significant energy" list.

Re: HyperTerm – JS/HTML/CSS Terminal

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Post by vbit »

dejawu wrote: post #68

Anybody remember TermKit[0]? This was my first thought when I saw "JS/HTML/CSS Terminal". It was built on WebKit (five years ago, before the everything-in-JS craze really began) and had a lot of really promising features like smart MIME-type support... and then development sort of stopped. I'd love to see the concept revisited with present-day technologies and platforms. [0]: https://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/

Heh yes.

There was also a mozilla XUL based terminal many years ago - can't remember the name though.

Re: HyperTerm – JS/HTML/CSS Terminal

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Post by disease »

juandazapata wrote: post #92

It definitely looks cool, but may I ask what's the problem that is being solved here? Does it support tmux or at least window splits? Which problems does this solve that the regular Terminal didn't solve? I'm kind of lost here, "I need some fireworks while I type in my terminal" is not a problem that I have often to be honest.

If they continue to improve on it and release it on Windows, it will solve the "no good terminals on Windows" problem.

Re: HyperTerm – JS/HTML/CSS Terminal

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Post by jsprogrammer »

acangiano wrote: post #117
dsl wrote: post #19

The folks who make HyperTerm might have something to say about your product naming... http://www.hilgraeve.com/hyperterminal/ Edit: I'm surprised more people in the HN crowd aren't familiar with HyperTerm (Yes that is the name and what everyone called it for many many years) It was bundled with Windows up to 7, and is still used heavily in industrial control areas.

This is definitely a trademark violation: http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4803:prh... A rename is in order.

This doesn't appear to be a commercial product, so there could be no trademark violation.
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