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Its not the flatness, its lack of design. See for example, https://www.sail.com.au/ , which is flat too, but with a cohesive design.
That site looks pretty awful to me, while I can clearly make out the buttons from other elements it looks like a old stock Drupal theme or something along those lines.
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Its not the flatness, its lack of design. See for example, https://www.sail.com.au/ , which is flat too, but with a cohesive design.
I am pretty sure core to "Flat UI" is that drop shadows shouldn't be used, and there is hardly an element on that site that isn't full of them.
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> If you're going for minimal, it won't get much more minimal than this: > https://surf.suckless.org Minimal UI maybe (or maybe not; is there still a truckload of stuff when right-clicking, or pressing hotkeys, or visiting `about:something`?) I'd say lynx, w3m, links, dillo, netsurf, etc. are all more minimal in general .
Ahem, no. Links has right click, even Netsurf has that. About general minimalism, dillo is perfect. For cli, w3m and links are NOT minimal. That is netrik.
I wasn't implying that 'right click == bloat', only that there are two meanings for "minimal": a minimal amount of code, or a minimal UI.
surf doesn't have a minimal amount of code, since it wraps WebKit; although it seems to have a minimal UI. My point about right-click, etc. is that much of the (GTK?) WebKit UI might still be lurking there.
I agree that dillo is really nice. Not minimal in the UI sense though (tabs, toolbar, search box, etc.)
I think the only way to make a dent into the browser market is to create the most secure browser and market it that way.
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They're mostly reacting to the title, because that's all that most HN comments react to. This is a much stronger effect than I think people realize. Had the title said "Min, a first attempt at a minimal browser that we hope might have some value someday, perhaps you could take a look", commenters would bend over backwards to find nice things to say, because that would be the only way to contradict the title. Actually…
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