So, basically Gopher.
It's essentially gopher with TLS.
Kristall – a browser without support for CSS/JS/WASM or graphical websites
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Re: Kristall – a browser without support for CSS/JS/WASM or graphical websites
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
> able to browse the web Yeah but this is not a browser for the web.
There's more than one web out there. Gopher and HTTP used to be about as popular. Now we have other protocols like Spartan[0]. 0. https://gemini.yesterweb.org/proxy/spartan.mozz.us/
I am absolutely in love with how spartan solved the input problem (prompt line), I wish gemini would also adopt the same function/tag
Re: Kristall – a browser without support for CSS/JS/WASM or graphical websites
#63Hacker News on Kristall: https://imgur.com/a/lhq8iCw http, https are disabled by default, they need to be enabled in File/Settings/Generic. I was hoping it would be a single executable but (on Windows) it's 56 files: 1 exe, 33 dedicated dlls, 22 translation files. Google Search does not work, it's impossible to get past the cookie consent page: https://imgur.com/a/daGMASS (Same thing happens if one tries to put the s…
You can probably use lite.duckduckgo.com.
Re: Kristall – a browser without support for CSS/JS/WASM or graphical websites
#64Like Links[1] then? Really. I want Epiphany and Firefox to allow me turn off JavaScript like I can allow/disallow {Audio, Video, Webcam, Location, Notifications...}. The single wrong decision was following Google into that JS-Show. JS has it rationals, I'm using it as programmer sometimes. But JS was consider harmful for the reasons! Google intention was using JS for it's so called web-application/single-page-applica…
I use uBlock origin with JavaScript disabled by default.
You can set a shortcut to enable JavaScript (“Relax blocking mode”, cmd-J for me. I don’t remember whether that was the default.)
You can persist enabled JavaScript for the current domain for the future.
I find that with JavaScript enabled on some 20 websites, the rest of the web works pretty well with the occasional cmd-J in case it doesn’t.
On mobile I haven’t found a good way to do it. Brave browser makes it easiest to enable/disable JS on the current page, among the ones I tested.
Re: Kristall – a browser without support for CSS/JS/WASM or graphical websites
#65Hacker News on Kristall: https://imgur.com/a/lhq8iCw http, https are disabled by default, they need to be enabled in File/Settings/Generic. I was hoping it would be a single executable but (on Windows) it's 56 files: 1 exe, 33 dedicated dlls, 22 translation files. Google Search does not work, it's impossible to get past the cookie consent page: https://imgur.com/a/daGMASS (Same thing happens if one tries to put the s…
How can the search boxes disappear? Aren’t they just plain HTML?
Re: Kristall – a browser without support for CSS/JS/WASM or graphical websites
#66Hacker News on Kristall: https://imgur.com/a/lhq8iCw http, https are disabled by default, they need to be enabled in File/Settings/Generic. I was hoping it would be a single executable but (on Windows) it's 56 files: 1 exe, 33 dedicated dlls, 22 translation files. Google Search does not work, it's impossible to get past the cookie consent page: https://imgur.com/a/daGMASS (Same thing happens if one tries to put the s…
Does https://search.marginalia.nu/ work?
No, but I think I must be doing something wrong, because no form or input field of any kind is ever displayed on any website. I tried the simplest form imaginable on localhost and it didn't work either.
Edit: as ketzu points out (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34351753), Kristall simply doesn't render form elements. Which makes it pretty useless ATM IMHO.
Re: Kristall – a browser without support for CSS/JS/WASM or graphical websites
#67Interesting that their website itself uses CSS: view-source:https://kristall.random-projects.net/style.css
Re: Kristall – a browser without support for CSS/JS/WASM or graphical websites
#68Hacker News on Kristall: https://imgur.com/a/lhq8iCw http, https are disabled by default, they need to be enabled in File/Settings/Generic. I was hoping it would be a single executable but (on Windows) it's 56 files: 1 exe, 33 dedicated dlls, 22 translation files. Google Search does not work, it's impossible to get past the cookie consent page: https://imgur.com/a/daGMASS (Same thing happens if one tries to put the s…
How can the search boxes disappear? Aren’t they just plain HTML?
They don't render input elements (at least that is my understanding of the code):
https://github.com/MasterQ32/kristall/blob/6b39f24484bb0796f...
The GitHub notes that they only support a reduced set of HTML, but not which set it is. My guess is they do not support any interactivity related elements.
Re: Kristall – a browser without support for CSS/JS/WASM or graphical websites
#69Interesting that their website itself uses CSS: view-source: https://kristall.random-projects.net/style.css
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Re: Kristall – a browser without support for CSS/JS/WASM or graphical websites
#70Hacker News on Kristall: https://imgur.com/a/lhq8iCw http, https are disabled by default, they need to be enabled in File/Settings/Generic. I was hoping it would be a single executable but (on Windows) it's 56 files: 1 exe, 33 dedicated dlls, 22 translation files. Google Search does not work, it's impossible to get past the cookie consent page: https://imgur.com/a/daGMASS (Same thing happens if one tries to put the s…
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