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Author of the software here, not the author of the article. Browsh is primarily aimed at those without fast and/or cheap bandwidth, yet still want access to the
by tombh 8y ago
Author of the software here, not the author of the article. Browsh is primarily aimed at those without fast and/or cheap bandwidth, yet still want access to the modern web. There are vast swathes of the world where downloading a 10Mb website is non-trivial. There are traditionally 2 solutions to such a problem, lynx et al or VNC. Lynx et al do not support the modern web and VNC is not a text-native application. Browsh somewhat ironically also has a browser client (although not yet at feature parity with the TTY client), that further improves accessibility to the modern web for those aforementioned citizens of the slow and expensive web.
Edit: Why do you think my coding standards are under any more suspicion than anyone elses? Just because Browsh is new?
- logfromblammo 8y agoFor some, "not supporting the modern web" is a feature. In electing to engage with it, we are substituting our mistrust of .JS and .CSS files out on the web with whatever engine you use to chew those up and re-render the output as text-mode approximations. It's fewer people to trust, to be certain, but the trust-by-default model has long been broken. Trust is earned, and easily lost. So absolutely yes, because it is new.
- tombh 8y agoI totally sympathise with those that are suspicious of the modern web. But Browsh is fundamentally not for them. It is for all those that don't have the luxury of cheap and fast internet, I want them to access the same information everyone else does. OK well I'm glad that the scrutiny upon me is the same as every other newcomer.
- zamadatix 8y agoHas Browsh's terminal approach been compared to traditional data proxy methods in units of quality or usability per byte?
- tombh 8y agoI'd love to see a serious breakdown of this. All I know is that anecdotally Browsh is very similar to a well configured VNC connection.
- throwaway5752 8y ago"Why do you think my coding standards are under any more suspicion than anyone elses" Because my presumption is that this is running on my servers (where I'm likely to need lynx, currently). The domain where it's running, nothing personal.
- tombh 8y agoThe domain where it's running? What does that matter if you install it yourself. You don't need any external Browse services of you run it yourself.
- throwaway5752 8y agoI meant to say something more like "Given my needs for a text based web browser, it's more likely I'd be running it on a more secure enclave where I'd subject any package I'd install to a great deal of scrutiny". I think you've answered it elsewhere, in a sibling comment to my first... for those with restricted bandwidth/slower connections this makes more sense than for other use cases where a sysadmin might use it because of security/business restrictions. I appreciate you didn't write the article/choose the wording.