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Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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post #36

What I really love is that (when the server is working) you can ssh brow.sh And then have a graphical browser from anywhere :D.

Thanks! What are you seeing when the server isn't working?

Oh it was just timing out, I assumed it was suffering from a HN hug of death but it could've just as easily been my connection :).

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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post #39

> Browsh consists of a minimal Golang CLI client and a browser webextension. Most of the work is done by the webextension. When the CLI starts, it looks for a compatible browser (currently only Firefox) and starts it in headless mode. Once the browser has started it opens a remote debugging connection and installs the extension. So a browser wrapper .

In implementation, sure. But from the user's perspective, it's just a browser.

But it doesn't work without X, a common use case for lynx/links/w3m

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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post #82
post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure that's true, for example elinks doesn't support SNI: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1527856

elinks and lynx are completely different browsers. Lynx is actively developed and can link against recent versions of OpenSSL, GnuTLS, and LibreSSL. The latest release came out yesterday: http://lynx.invisible-island.net/release/ Lynx can render HTML5 web pages. Not sure what WebGL has to do with a web browser that is meant for terminal emulators. CSS is not supported in text browsers in general (not all of them are…

Yes you're right, it's unfair to lump elinks and lynx together. It's before Browsh I would use elinks all the time as it seemed the most modern.

Surely though just the sheer fact of CSS's `hidden` declaration has to be taken into account by any browser, text-based nor not? I've came to the conclusion that there just simply isn't a subset of modern web standards that you can adhere to and still use the web today. Our best option is just to piggy back off one of the major browsers that does all the hard work of keeping up with the rapidly changing technologies.

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

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post #2

Some of you may have seen this before under its previous incarnation of "Texttop". Then it was just a hack, but I got some great feedback, so I've spent most of the last 12 months turning it into something serious. It's morphed into more than a mere TTY gimmick. That UNIX philosophy of text being the "universal interface" has somewhat unexpectedly risen to the forefront, such that Browsh is now essentially a text bro…

Well stay chargin for it. Put a button and give a dedicated connection for people that pay?

Re: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

#100
post #97

no alternative to links2 which is downloading much less (airplane etc.)

I don't understand your point

Don't get me wrong. Appreciate the project and effort. Well done and amazing. But the only time I use a text based browser is when I have very very bad connection (which happened once or twice e.g. in an airplane). But would be better for comparing links2 vs. mosh+remote browsh. Nevertheless I don't want to keep running some vm (even when it's small) just for my very seldom text browser sessions ;)

I will keep browsh in mind when I'm again on some remote island. Could be a no brainer to install adhoc on a remote vm then.

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