"Build terminals in the browser" ... and give your passwords there, and type commands. What can go wrong.
You are aware that millions of people use web browsers each day to do their banking, purchase products, and generally run businesses?
Xterm.js
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
TIL another project started by Fabrice Bellard (well for him it's just a side project for the real project JSLinux).
Whenever people say that the “10x developer” is a myth, I point them to Fabrice Bellard, who would easily be 100 times more productive than your average developer at pretty much any task you give him. The sheer diversity of problems he’s solved with extremely high quality software is astounding.
True, he’s mind-bogglingly amazing. Also still probably not a helpful example to developing a sane working group or good office dynamics. He’s a unicorns unicorn.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are terminals better sandboxed when run outside of a browser?
Usually yes. They are running in a completely different process than the browser.
Don't be ridiculous. The only and obvious answer to the question is "no" -- the terminal itself and all commands inside it run unimpeded.
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#54TIL chrome has an ssh client extension which can be used in a browser tab. Anyone care to share their experience with it? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/secure-shell-app/p...
I made it through my first semester of computer science using Secure Shell on a cheap Chromebook and a linux box back in my apartment.
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#55I wonder how well it fares on the VT100 torture test curl -q http://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/art/torturet.vt
Wonder no more: https://i.imgur.com/DGuoj9p.png
how about termbench? https://github.com/cmuratori/termbench
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#56Hi all, I'm one of the maintainers of xterm.js, open to answer any questions! Here's a little history on the project, some of which is already called out in other comments: - Fabrice Bellard created jslinux[1]. - Christopher Jeffrey (@chjj) forked the terminal component into term.js[2], this eventually became unmaintained. - Paris Kasidiaris (@parisk) forked it into xterm.js for use in SourceLair[3]. - I showed up ar…
I've actually been using xterm in my self baked full RDP suite using Node and WebRTC to control my PC(s) and raspberry pis remotely.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vkXp9Hm-9ID8eOrApjLFGFc-fOe...
Thank you for creating this!!!! I basically work full time in my oculus quest 2 thanks to this
Re: Xterm.js
#57Hi all, I'm one of the maintainers of xterm.js, open to answer any questions! Here's a little history on the project, some of which is already called out in other comments: - Fabrice Bellard created jslinux[1]. - Christopher Jeffrey (@chjj) forked the terminal component into term.js[2], this eventually became unmaintained. - Paris Kasidiaris (@parisk) forked it into xterm.js for use in SourceLair[3]. - I showed up ar…
Thank you and everyone else involved. I tried reading the source code of many terminal emulators, found them to be really difficult to understand. This project helped me understand terminals better.
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#58Related is https://hterm.org/ , used with the built in ssh terminal in chromebooks.
Anyone know how they compare, feature wise?
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#59I wrote a VT100 emulator in PostScript for NeWS in 1987! I worked for a company called Wedge Computer (ha ha!), who ported NeWS to the Mac II running A/UX, which needed a way to connect to Unix servers from NeWS without running a terminal emulator client remotely. It could passed vttest!
https://donhopkins.com/home/archive/NeWS/tnterm.ps
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS
Two versions of NeWS on Mac II Make Debut
https://books.google.nl/books?id=Cj8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA31&lpg=PA...
Yep, Unix ran on Macs in 1988!
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#60Another older terminal JS library that might interest people is https://www.masswerk.at/termlib/