Show HN: Next Browser native on Linux

Post by bloopernova » Wed, Dec 05, 2018, 4:45 PM UTC

nine_k wrote: post #40

What if a browser was built like Emacs is built? With low-level rendering core exposing almost everything to scripting in Lisp, and the entire UX written in Lisp, fully customizable? It appears that Next goes in this direction. I don't know if gtk-webkit allows to script it very deeply, e.g. enough to expose DOM and write extensions in Lisp. It would also be great to have something like the Emacs's customization fram…

Post by asituop » Wed, Dec 05, 2018, 4:54 PM UTC

PaulHoule wrote: post #25

I like the idea but it doesn't go anywhere near far enough. I feel like the web has become that "City of Destruction" that is talked about in "Pilgrim's Progress"; something like 95% of the bytes transferred are just junk. I am not at all interested in "seeing the content the way the created intended it", I really would rather decompose it into a semantic graph and then put it together to show me what is relevant. Th…

Post by bloopernova » Wed, Dec 05, 2018, 5:07 PM UTC

nine_k wrote: post #44

bloopernova wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ever since I started using Org Mode in the Android app "Orgzly" and in Visual Studio Code, I've been wishing a lot more was written so it could take advantage of Lisp. Mostly because I'm selfish and want more of Org Mode's features supported in more places, but also I'm super impressed by Emacs' scripting/control abilities. I'd also like to see vim with a mode specifically for Org Mode. But that sort of idea is very…

Yes, when I finally have free time, I'll spend some of it to write a reasonably good implementation of Org Mode data model in Typescript, and maybe in something else, to help making Org Mode support painless everywhere, like Markdown now.

Post by jmercouris » Wed, Dec 05, 2018, 5:44 PM UTC

xte wrote: post #46

Hum, a prize for such a good work, a minus for posting a https://next.atlas.engineer/article/technical-design.org that's actually html, not org... I'd open in Emacs and say "sgrunt"... :D BTW for me the sole really missing points today are addons, something like PrivacyBadger, Google/Facebook container etc I use Privoxy but that's not enough (or I do not know how to use it well enough) and I feel the need of somethin…

Post by agumonkey » Wed, Dec 05, 2018, 5:59 PM UTC