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Re: Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser

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It seems to be incredibly slow which kind of defeats the purpose of having a text-based browser to begin with. I'm not sure, but it looks like it's taking the output of a headless Firefox and turning it into ascii. If that's the case I'd rather stick with something like Lynx, etc.

The point is when you have a connection with limited bandwidth. In such cases you can host browsh in the cloud and connect to it with ssh/mosh. You get a much better experience than text based browsers at a limited bandwidth. It's great for such cases - I use it when hiking / working away from good internet.

As this comment in the thread says, it looks like it uses a lot of constant bandwidth as it's consttantly querying for the latest visuals from the headless FF instance[0]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25132746

The main use case for this is when you want to experience a browser in a terminal, including if you don't have X or a GUI setup.

Re: Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser

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Yes it's super slow, but many of the criticisms are missing the point. This enables browsing over SSH when you have low bandwidth. The heavy internetting is done on the remote machine (like a cloud VM for example) using blazing fast data center internet. A personal example may explain why I love this. For several years I lived in rural Alaska where the fastest internet one could buy was $120 a month (I think) and a b…

Why don't you just run VNC or remote desktop on a remote machine? Unless those can't run well on 512kbps.

Re: Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser

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post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A font that renders the empty braille pattern with unfilled dots seems very inaccessible to the visually impaired. Empty braille pattern sections should arguably always be blank.

I don’t think rendered braille is for the visually impaired...

Everything rendered on your screen matters for the visually impaired; even braille characters, however redundant.
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