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To my overly long TODO-list I added a web browser project. I would like to see something akin to Links [0] or Lynx [1] with a bit of Dillo [2], but also for mob
by hawski 9y ago
To my overly long TODO-list I added a web browser project. I would like to see something akin to Links [0] or Lynx [1] with a bit of Dillo [2], but also for mobile.
Features & non-features:
- it would generally work like the reader mode (no other modes) trying to place navigation links in a predictable place
- user can easily select text size and color schemes
- night mode (Android does not have one)
- because of it's content focus it could offer great offline capabilities like full-text search through archive and version comparison
- probably ignore most or all CSS
- probably no JavaScript support
- ad blocker for the rest
Can such a thing use it's own rendering engine on iOS? As I said I don't care about JS.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_(web_browser) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_(web_browser)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx_(web_browser)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dillo
- codedokode 9y agoWhat's the use of night mode? Even if someone needs to browse web in the darkness (which is a bad idea anyway), it should be implemented somewhere in the OS, not in applications.
- hawski 9y agoSometimes you need to browse in the darkness. It should be implemented in the OS, but it isn't. I don't have a mobile OS on my TODO list. The night mode would be just a small additional setting on top of a color scheme selection.
- golergka 9y agoIf it's not implemented in the OS, wouldn't it make more sense to create an OS-level utility?
- hawski 9y agoOS-level utility needs APIs that are not there in case of Android. All night-mode apps for Android are just a reddish overlay. It often falls apart when you something can't go through the overlay like AFAIR system passwords. I tried to use apps, but met with this wall several times. Android did have a night mode, but it was experimental and removed in later versions. So other than alternative ROMs there's nothing there.
- gusmd 9y agoMy 1st gen Pixel XL has had night mode since I bought it 1.5 years ago, and it has continued to work all the way to Android 8.1.0.
- posterboy 9y agoit is implemented in android, iirc
- untangle 9y agoYou might find Min to your liking. https://minbrowser.github.io/min/ https://minbrowser.github.io/min/
- dredmorbius 9y agoI've been kicking around some related ideas: https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/6bgowu/what_if_the_web_was_filesystemaccessible/ https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/6bgowu/what_if...
- lazyjones 9y agoAt this point it's probably easier to come up with an efficient HTTP/HTML/CSS/JS replacement plus matching browser than to write a complete browser from scratch.