41–50 of 113 posts
It says it's "reducing bandwidth", but then it's downloading all the graphics assests so it can render them in very crappy unicode? Why? Wouldn't it make more sense not to download the graphics at all?
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…
But what does this do that links via ssh doesn’t already do?
If people are looking for an actual modern take on text based browsing, I would refer them to the work of Igor Chubin. curl https://v2.wttr.in/London curl https://cheat.sh/rsync With a supported terminal: curl https://v3.wttr.in And also: https://github.com/chubin/awesome-console-services
It says it's "reducing bandwidth", but then it's downloading all the graphics assests so it can render them in very crappy unicode? Why? Wouldn't it make more sense not to download the graphics at all?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Note that this isn't a "true" terminal-based browser. It's built on a WebExtension running in Firefox that renders out the DOM as text to a Go-based CLI client. It's not a browser engine running in your terminal, it's more of a VNC over TTY.
Ah, noted. Must check and see if w3m and lynx have evolved to cope with the modern JavaScript web!
Must check. In my console only Raspberry-pi I use elinks to browse and scrape web info.
Elinks is a hauntingly good software. I'm a bit sad that it's not actively developed, but I find solace in the thought that it is already a nearly perfect crystal that cannot be substantially improved upon.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Elinks is the only one close, but last I tried it there were still issues
Terrible suggestion. From [1] "On 17 March 2017, OpenBSD removed ELinks from its ports tree, citing concerns with security issues and lack of responsiveness from the developers.[5]" Last stable is from 2009. Last development release 2012. Elinks is dead. Realize it uses an old version of Spidermonkey (JS). Elinks should not be used in a production environment, period. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinks
If you need minimal JS support, check edbrowse. This is just a hipster like brag trying to be "modern". If I can't run it under a Pentium3 (at least) at astronomical speeds, this is just a bad try.
All I really need is showing imgs in the console, which w3m-img can do along with w3m but you need an xterm instead of the modern consoles(gnome-terminal, konsole,lxterminal, none can show imgs) the docker images of brow.sh needs firefox and the whole pull size is a few hundred MB, can someone list the advantages over lynx/w3m/links2 etc.
> Its main purpose is to be run on a remote server and accessed via SSH/Mosh or the in-browser HTML service in order to significantly reduce bandwidth and thus both increase browsing speeds and decrease bandwidth costs.