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Show HN: Wikipedia Browser a La Andy Matuschak's Evergreen Notes

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Post by steezeburger »

I was inspired by Andy Matuschak's Evergreen Notes viewer and created this small web app to browse Wikipedia in the same way. Clicking on a link opens the content in a new pane to the right. And you can resize panes. It's really nice for following rabbit holes or checking out lists from articles. Let me know what you think!

Code here: https://github.com/steezeburger/wikipedia-browser

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Re: Show HN: Wikipedia Browser a La Andy Matuschak's Evergreen Notes

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Post by AlexErrant »

I wonder if this-view-but-for-browser-tabs would be useful.

E.g. instead of opening 4 google search links as tabs, you could just open one "to the side" and quickly go to the next link if it turns out to be SEO spam (and avoid a click to close-tab or back-buton).

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Post by dspillett »

AlexErrant wrote: post #5

I wonder if this-view-but-for-browser-tabs would be useful. E.g. instead of opening 4 google search links as tabs, you could just open one "to the side" and quickly go to the next link if it turns out to be SEO spam (and avoid a click to close-tab or back-buton).

I've thought of this too, along with the possibility of having multiple tabs visible in the same window generally (almost like a screen/tmux/byobu/… for a browser with tabs being panes in tmux's terminology⁰, tabs->windows and a browser window being a session).

That is probably a very niche desire though, so I don't hold hope of seeing it implemented/supported and don't have time to try write it myself.

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Post by c_ehlen »

dspillett wrote: post #8
AlexErrant wrote: post #5

I wonder if this-view-but-for-browser-tabs would be useful. E.g. instead of opening 4 google search links as tabs, you could just open one "to the side" and quickly go to the next link if it turns out to be SEO spam (and avoid a click to close-tab or back-buton).

I've thought of this too, along with the possibility of having multiple tabs visible in the same window generally (almost like a screen/tmux/byobu/… for a browser with tabs being panes in tmux's terminology⁰, tabs->windows and a browser window being a session). That is probably a very niche desire though, so I don't hold hope of seeing it implemented/supported and don't have time to try write it myself. -------- [0]…

Arc browser is doing something like this. Not as sophisticated but at least you get split views (panes).

https://arc.net/

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Post by dark-star »

This reminds me of the old File Browser concept from NextSTEP/OpenSTEP (which, I think, was at some point also adopted by MacOS X).

I could never get used to the "horizontal history" style of browsing anything.

But I admit that for the Ultra Wide displays that are all the rage recently, this might be actually very workable

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