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This post is a bit short on information. I like the take is instead of "living without GUI" (hence CLI/TUI) it is living without the modern browser. But you'd b
by Fnoord 7y ago
This post is a bit short on information. I like the take is instead of "living without GUI" (hence CLI/TUI) it is living without the modern browser. But you'd be surprised how much stuff is flying over HTTP(S). For example consider VLC, and use the download subtitle extension. You could think of Beautiful Soup 4 or similar clients (didn't check if it uses that but as a Python example).
Which leads me to the question: when is a browser considered modern? If it has a GUI? If it supports Web 2.0? If it supports Web 3.0? If it supports JavaScript? If it supports all JavaScript by default?
"There are multiple text-based browsers to choose from. The oldest and maybe the most well known is Lynx. Personally I use Links instead, which provides a similar experience, but also includes a “graphical” mode that is capable of displaying images, and the default background color is black as opposed to gray (only for the non-graphical mode, though the background color can be changed in graphical mode). Here’s a list of text-based browsers from Wikipedia (not all of them are maintained)."
Every once in a while I check this out. They're all either horribly out of date, or they do not work with current technologies, or they have some experimental features but they're out of date ports from Firefox (with security vulnerabilities!). Hence I recommend Browsh instead which is based on Firefox. But I would not say it fits the narrative of "living without the modern browser" as it is Firefox under the hood. It fits better in the living without GUI narrative.