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A while ago I wrote something very similar - https://fasterbadger.com https://fasterbadger.com - see discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9679464

by wdrw 7y ago

A while ago I wrote something very similar - https://fasterbadger.com https://fasterbadger.com - see discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9679464 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9679464 - based on PhantomJS - didn't put nearly as much work into it though, it's still very much in prototype stage - the goal was different though, not so much for privacy but for browsing JS- and CSS-heavy sites (e.g. most news sites) on legacy devices/phones, especially where bandwidth is at a premium.

slowenough 7y ago
That's very cool! Thank you so much for sharing this. I'm looking at your app and I love the long scroll feature. How did you do that? It's so cool how you can scroll down the page natively, and the image updates, that's really incredible. And I'm reading the initial discussion, and it's ... in 2015! Wow, how did you do this back then! I think thing's are so much easier now with all the features in the protocol. I am really interested in how you did this and I love the site. It's very cool and I prefer it to my own work in many ways. Would you be a terrible idea for you to contribute to BrowserGap? About half way through development, I was travelling and buying 4G data sims and I also thought I needed to use it for that (easily use 50Mb just on a news site). So I made a HTML only version (no images, just stripped back HTML, you can see the work in the various 'appminifier' subdirectories somewhere in the repo). It saved me data, but introduced lots of quirks. At some point I realized it was too difficult, and I was committed to another idea with it, rather than this low bandwidth, so I stopped working on that feature. Also, I love the Open in new tab? feature you have. This really rocks. It made me so happy to see this work! Thank you so much for sharing with me. :) I wanted to get a scrolling feature like you have and I couldn't think of a way to make it work. If yow could do that in BG I'd love it!

by wdrw 7y ago

slowenough 7y ago

That's very cool! Thank you so much for sharing this. I'm looking at your app and I love the long scroll feature. How did you do that? It's so cool how you can scroll down the page natively, and the image updates, that's really incredible. And I'm reading the initial discussion, and it's ... in 2015! Wow, how did you do this back then! I think thing's are so much easier now with all the features in the protocol. I am really interested in how you did this and I love the site. It's very cool and I prefer it to my own work in many ways. Would you be a terrible idea for you to contribute to BrowserGap? About half way through development, I was travelling and buying 4G data sims and I also thought I needed to use it for that (easily use 50Mb just on a news site). So I made a HTML only version (no images, just stripped back HTML, you can see the work in the various 'appminifier' subdirectories somewhere in the repo). It saved me data, but introduced lots of quirks. At some point I realized it was too difficult, and I was committed to another idea with it, rather than this low bandwidth, so I stopped working on that feature. Also, I love the Open in new tab? feature you have. This really rocks. It made me so happy to see this work! Thank you so much for sharing with me. :) I wanted to get a scrolling feature like you have and I couldn't think of a way to make it work. If yow could do that in BG I'd love it!