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

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Post by mherrmann »

monch1962 wrote: post #79
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…

I could see this being part of a lightweight browser UI testing framework. There's already ways to drive a headless UI (Selenium, puppeteer), but they require automation testers to interact with page elements via the "normal" DOM which can be quite painful in terms of creating automation tests - DSLs to drive DOM automation are necessarily huge. I could envision browser automation via browsh using a very small DSL e.…

Check out (my) https://heliumhq.com. Not text-based but very high-level.

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

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Post by enriquto »

tombh wrote: post #181
enriquto wrote: post #159

I love text-based browsers, and this is the one whose display looks best (but i would like to disable images/animations). This being a work in progress, the most important feature needed immediately is a boost in performance. I have a very powerful workstation, and just following a link and rendering the next page takes almost a second. (In lynx, w3m and in elinks it is instantaneous.)

Browsh is really aimed at people with slow and/or expensive Internet that would benefit with having the main browser engine running remotely. You then access the output of Browsh via either SSH/Mosh or HTML serivice. But nevertheless you might like Browsh's monochrome toggle: `ALT+m`

I like colors, my problem is mostly the sluggishness. I follow a link and I have to wait a while, without any feedback, until the new page is ready. There is no reason for these delays (from the point of view of the user). If I am interested in text-only browsing, the other browsers offer a much more user-friendly experience.

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

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Post by JdeBP »

jwilk wrote: post #136
minitech wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Current ELinks does support SNI. That bug might have been RHEL being on an old version.

Current? There was no stable release since 2009.

"stable" is not "current", as with so many software projects; and indeed current is dated October 2012 according to the elinks WWW site.

But even that is wrong. Development in fact continued for eight years until July 2017.

* http://repo.or.cz/elinks.git/shortlog/HEAD

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

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Post by astatine »

hyperpallium wrote: post #121

Which of the ARM downloads work on android?

I also would find an Android version really helpful. Will save a ton of data when roaming and will probably perform better in poor connectivity regions (only 2G and no 3G/4G). Would be great to know how to get this on an Android device.

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

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Post by beefield »

tombh wrote: post #183
beefield wrote: post #158

Just wonder what kind of experience one should expect with 2400 bps? (Iridium go unlimited global satellite connection that costs around 135 USD per month. I think Go has some limitations so I do not know how much one would need to hack things around to get ssh terminal working properly)?

This is really the perfect use case for Browsh. I first had the idea for it when I was in the deserts of Ladakh where you'd get around 3kb/s speeds. So what you need to do is install Browsh on a remote server along with Mosh. Then from your own personal computer you can use the Mosh client to get Browsh working, albeit, quite slowly, in your terminal. So you don't need to touch Go at all. Let me know if you want any…

I do not have currently the hardware (nor immediate need for it) it is just something I have been wondering how much it would cost to get properly global intrnet connection. I think Iridium Go does not allow connections from other than selected apps, you can't make a generic internet connection from a laptop through go. But this is just based on what I have read, I have no first hand experience.

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

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Post by jacquesm »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #151
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…

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…

This is typical for infrastructure and foundation libraries. Nobody made money on jpeg, but jpeg powered entire industries.
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