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Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by culi »

hattmall wrote: post #39
jug wrote: post #17

Hmm, not sure it's for me (a bit too much hacker) but I'd definitely like a highly customizable, module based browser with a pure shell by default. Something like Visual Studio Code but with less cruft from the get go. I've never thought about it until I saw this! Now I'm really irked about there not being a solid, mature browser based on extensibility. Where the base is basically an address bar and history awareness…

I use to build my own like this with the VB web browser control. I had tons of automation built in for a lot of tasks but it becomes too much to keep up with. I've looked into headless chrome but it's not as cool as working in the Visual Studio and being able to pause and just develop on the fly. Honestly it was incredibly cool but websites just get more and more complicated. From like 2004 to maybe 2014-2016 it was…

The web standard really has exploded since that time range you mentioned. Nowdays there's a native browser API for text-to-speech. It's easier to generate speech for an article you wrote than it is to style an option in a native element

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by schemescape »

GlumWoodpecker wrote: post #7
_8j50 wrote: post #5

You know what would be cool, if you could use unix cli tools in the browser. Press control+ , a small console box shows up and run: |grep ...|awk ... And the text of the document gets processed. But if you want to mess with the dom you could: Html.Body | sed ... | jq ...

This probably wouldn't be possible due to browser sandboxing. You could however, use a tool like External Application Button [0] in order to send the URL of the page to a script/program, which in turn can make the body of the page parsable by downloading the URL it gets, automating some action on it. I use it pretty often to automate downloads with yt-dlp or opening a picture directly in GIMP from the browser, but si…

> This probably wouldn't be possible due to browser sandboxing.

I’m curious about this comment. Surely this should be possible using accessibility hooks for a normal browser or in Nyxt via scripting, right?

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by culi »

graderjs wrote: post #49
soulofmischief wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I commented here [0] and am extremely interested in discussing BrowserBox with you. This is something I've brought up over and over, I'm an experienced web dev and generalist but simply couldn't tackle on my own. Curious about your roadmap with dosyago and BrowserBox, where our goals converge and diverge and how we can help each other. Feel free to reach out via email, it's in my bio. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com…

Dude! I can't parse your email but like definitely reach out to me: cris@dosyago.com :D ;p

This is a very cool interaction and I hope it turns into something. Would love a place to keep up if anything ever materializes.

Here's some other projects you might have inspo or crossover with and some discussions you might find possible collaborators in:

Bonsai https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28446147

Mullvad Browser (security oriented FireFox-based) https://mullvad.net/en/browser

Browsh (purely text-based browser) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17487552

Ladybird (browser from scratch for SerenityOS)

Kosmonaut (browser from scratch in Rust) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24170201

Refresh (concepts for a new kind of web browser) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17638477

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by jahsome »

jug wrote: post #17

Hmm, not sure it's for me (a bit too much hacker) but I'd definitely like a highly customizable, module based browser with a pure shell by default. Something like Visual Studio Code but with less cruft from the get go. I've never thought about it until I saw this! Now I'm really irked about there not being a solid, mature browser based on extensibility. Where the base is basically an address bar and history awareness…

Tridactyl checks my boxes.

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by easrng »

elashri wrote: post #57
noisy_boy wrote: post #54

Since we are on the topic of hackers browsers, does anyone know if Firefox can be made to split pane (both for seeing the same page side by side and also doing it for two different pages)? Having done that with file browsers and IDEs, I wonder how come it wasn't a main feature? Nobody needed to compare pages side by side?

Actually the had official extension[1] that did that in the past but I don't remember and can't find why it is no longer available. [1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/uncategorized/its-a-new-firefox-...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/side-view/

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by kdrag0n »

graderjs wrote: post #49
soulofmischief wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I commented here [0] and am extremely interested in discussing BrowserBox with you. This is something I've brought up over and over, I'm an experienced web dev and generalist but simply couldn't tackle on my own. Curious about your roadmap with dosyago and BrowserBox, where our goals converge and diverge and how we can help each other. Feel free to reach out via email, it's in my bio. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com…

Dude! I can't parse your email but like definitely reach out to me: cris@dosyago.com :D ;p

Looks like it's reversed :)

Re: Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser

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Post by p-e-w »

Looks like Nyxt, a browser "inspired by Vim", inherits Vim's showstopper bug: Being unusable on many non-US keyboards, at least with the default bindings. The 'switch-buffer-previous' command is bound to C-[, which cannot be pressed e.g. on QWERTZ layouts because the [ character requires AltGr. This is like sending around text files encoded in Windows-1252 and expecting things to just work.

Sorry folks, but it turns out that the creators of Vi(m) didn't actually invent the ultimate UI paradigm half a century ago. It's bad enough that a text editor that ignores the past few decades of UX research is still in widespread use, but please, for the love of God, stop incorporating that broken paradigm into new products.

What a pity, because Nyxt looks like a well-designed piece of software otherwise.

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