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Re: Woob: Web Outside of Browsers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember weboob, and all the amusing names of the various pieces. Unfortunate that the (French) humour was killed by political correctness.

Je suis française et cet humour était vraiment merdique

Je suis Française et je trouvais ça drôle.

Re: Woob: Web Outside of Browsers

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post #7

France just can't shake the Minitel, that's for sure.

Not sure I understand the Minitel reference. This tool adds APIs to sites that don't have one. It's made to easily use your data. Sure you can use the CLI part of it, but that's only a small part of the story.

Re: Woob: Web Outside of Browsers

#124

Believe it or not, around the turn of the century there were many thick client apps. But back then it was a challenge to ship and update these applications. This pain, along with the continued rollout of broadband led many to advocate for creating applications that would run in a web browser while being controlled on centralized servers. In practice, turning the platform that was designed to render markup text into a…

This is an interesting observation. I hadn't noticed this dynamic before; thanks for sharing. The current differences in attitudes between mobile and non-mobile apps is pretty interesting. If you visit Reddit or Twitter from a browser that's running on a mobile OS then they make it extremely clear that they would prefer that you use a dedicated app. When visiting from a non-mobile OS not only do you not see such mess…

True. That's actual a market gap! Build a mobile browser so good it can replace apps.
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