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Re: Nyxt Browser

#11

Post by mempko » Sat, Mar 20, 2021, 10:08 PM UTC

I'll look at this again when they support gecko

Re: Nyxt Browser

#12

Post by Y_Y » Sat, Mar 20, 2021, 10:18 PM UTC

guerrilla wrote: post #5

Every web browser should have a tree based history by this point. This part is cool: > Nyxt is web engine agnostic. We utilize a minimal API to interface to any web engine. This makes us flexible and resilient to changes in the web landscape. Currently, we support WebKit and WebEngine (Blink). Does this browser have anything do to with Next? The logo seems similar.

This whole project looks dope so allow me to make some superficial bikesheddy complaints.

1. It just has bad KHTML forks for the engine. What about Gecko and Presto and Trident all the other fine renderers?

2. I don't know what kind of lisp they're using (probably Common Lisp), anyway it's not my favourite kind.

Re: Nyxt Browser

#13

Post by josteink » Sat, Mar 20, 2021, 10:43 PM UTC

That looks like someone bundled a prepacked browser-like starter-package using Emacs compiled with GTK-widgets (WebView) with Helm and some other niceties like the status-bar.

It even uses the same terminology with words like “buffers” instead of tabs.

Is this actually an Emacs-based browser being shipped to the masses?

Re: Nyxt Browser

#14

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Mar 20, 2021, 10:58 PM UTC

mempko wrote: post #11

I'll look at this again when they support gecko

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Re: Nyxt Browser

#15

Post by Jtsummers » Sat, Mar 20, 2021, 11:04 PM UTC

josteink wrote: post #13

That looks like someone bundled a prepacked browser-like starter-package using Emacs compiled with GTK-widgets (WebView) with Helm and some other niceties like the status-bar. It even uses the same terminology with words like “buffers” instead of tabs. Is this actually an Emacs-based browser being shipped to the masses?

I think it's more accurate to say "emacs inspired". The system is written in Common Lisp and uses a lot of emacs ideas like you point out (buffers vs tabs, chorded keyboard shortcuts (though there is a vi mode too), configurable in Lisp, etc.).

Re: Nyxt Browser

#16

Post by butz » Sat, Mar 20, 2021, 11:07 PM UTC

Nice to see some people still trying to innovate on web browsing experience. With all mainline browsers stuck with almost identical UI, it is great to see some experimentation still going on.

Re: Nyxt Browser

#17

Post by alrs » Sat, Mar 20, 2021, 11:12 PM UTC

mempko wrote: post #11

I'll look at this again when they support gecko

I run Firefox myself, but you can't really blame developers for not wanting to deal with the whims of Mozilla.

Re: Nyxt Browser

#18

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Mar 20, 2021, 11:14 PM UTC

monstersinF wrote: post #3

I didn’t expect too many clever features but the special link hot keys and tree based history is something I didn’t know I wanted but now I do

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Re: Nyxt Browser

#19

Post by bajsejohannes » Sat, Mar 20, 2021, 11:20 PM UTC

I used to use the keyboard a lot in Opera back in the day. Favorites included searching for links on the page by text and pressing enter to get there, and navigating back/forward using "link rel" tags in the documen (for example, you could go to the "next page" regardless of the browser history)

I seem to recall that web pages were steadily making it harder for it to work. E.g no "a href" or "link rel"s.

Here's hoping that Nyxt will have success in bringing this era back!

Re: Nyxt Browser

#20

Post by 0xCMP » Sat, Mar 20, 2021, 11:33 PM UTC

Wish this were easier to download since it's more common to use Brew now.

Very excited at the idea of having fast fuzzy switching of tabs. I wish more things operated like that.