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I think the main "selling point" of edbrowse for sighted people might be its scripting capabilities. You can automate a lot of browsing with it if you take the
by marttt 4y ago
I think the main "selling point" of edbrowse for sighted people might be its scripting capabilities. You can automate a lot of browsing with it if you take the time. See the user guide: http://edbrowse.org/usersguide.html#script http://edbrowse.org/usersguide.html#script
I've been curious about edbrowse for a long time, finding it a fascinating and inspiring project. It's a somewhat hidden gem for sure. Then again, I failed to build it on my (tiny) distro, and I occasionally think that maybe the internal scripting language, mail client, etc create "too many" temptations for a casual user.
A simple line-mode website pager that encourages Unix pipes for any user-defined task (maybe even the javascript engine could be built as an external application?) would be enough for a modest hobbyist coder like me, I guess. Something like the nmh mail handler, but for web browsing: https://www.unix.com/man-page/linux/7/nmh/ https://www.unix.com/man-page/linux/7/nmh/
This is by no means meant as a harsh critique or whining, though. As indicated, the project, Karl Dahlke, Chris Bannon and other devs do deserve tremendous respect. It is quite possible that a heavily pipes-oriented web browsing would be too fragmented for actual, day-to-day usage.
The line-editing paradigm nonetheless has its beauty and a compelling simplicity, even in 2022. Keep it going!