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This makes me think we might need a terminal for web apps.
by fiatjaf 7y ago
This makes me think we might need a terminal for web apps.
- fiatjaf 7y agoBy this I mean actually a way for people to publish standardized web interfaces that can all be accessed from the same local terminal, with built-in identity, text-editing and JSON filtering with jq, who knows what else.
- JadeNB 7y ago> By this I mean actually a way for people to publish standardized web interfaces that can all be accessed from the same local terminal, with built-in identity, text-editing and JSON filtering with jq, who knows what else. Unfortunately, the interfaces which need this treatment the most are the ones least likely to get it, since big companies (even those that do not intentionally profit by obscuring what they know about you from you) are terrified of what you might do with your own data if given anything more than laboriously point-and-click access to it. (EDIT: Hi, PeopleSoft! I hate you!)
- fiatjaf 7y agoI think there are a ton of services that could be more easily built (at least as proof-of-concept) if this kind of UI existed and developers didn't have to worry about pretty flashy GUIs. Also something like this could have more access to "native" stuff than current browsers.
- sp332 7y agoThe code is very out-of-date by now, but check out the old Ubiquity project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquity_(Firefox) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubiquity_(Firefox) Before it died, they even had complex internationalization support that could handle different subject-verb-object orders and typed autocomplete.