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I tried it just now and it renders very poorly some common sites like facebook (bad rendering) or twitter (not supported at all) docs links are mostly broken 4

I tried it just now and it renders very poorly some common sites like facebook (bad rendering) or twitter (not supported at all) docs links are mostly broken 404 https://www.netsurf-browser.org/documentation/progress#General https://www.netsurf-browser.org/documentation/progress#Gener...

anthk 3y ago
It doesn't support JS, head to https://m.facebook.com https://m.facebook.com maybe. On Twitter, they used to have a JSless page, but now it's defunct.
- ainar-g 3y ago
  It does have optional support for JS thru Duktape[1] Engine, if I recall correctly, but that engine doesn't support a lot of modern JS stuff, mostly being limited to ECMAScript 5. [1]: https://duktape.org/ https://duktape.org/
- asystole 3y ago
  It's a cool historic artifact, but I'd argue a browser without JS support these days is like a text editor without syntax highlighting.
  - anthk 3y ago
    If the web needs JS to work even to display non-dynamic content, then the web it's utterly broken.
    - bee_rider 3y ago
      A good number of sites are utterly broken. I remember being able to browse normal sites with JavaScript disabled as late as 2010, but since then I’ve had to downgrade to Firefox+noscript.
      - anthk 3y ago
        DilloNG with the PSP user agent and with the remote CSS disabled works surprisingly fine for lots of sites. For everything else, mpv+yt-dlp for media and gopher://magical.fish under lynx/sacc for news/services.
  - bufio 3y ago
    I can't see the downsides to a lack of JS or syntax highlighting.
  - omaranto 3y ago
    Most of the websites I interact with are either very interactive web apps which have no hope of working without JavaScript or are basically made up of text documents I want to read. It is shocking how much the document-style websites improve if you browse them without JavaScript. People have really put a lot of crap on top of what is basically just a text file.
  - bovermyer 3y ago
    Refreshingly lightweight?
  - tenebrisalietum 3y ago
    or, it's like a document reader with a far lower amount and chance of security issues.
- password4321 3y ago
  https://mbasic.facebook.com https://mbasic.facebook.com

anthk 3y ago

It doesn't support JS, head to https://m.facebook.com https://m.facebook.com maybe. On Twitter, they used to have a JSless page, but now it's defunct.

ainar-g 3y ago
It does have optional support for JS thru Duktape[1] Engine, if I recall correctly, but that engine doesn't support a lot of modern JS stuff, mostly being limited to ECMAScript 5. [1]: https://duktape.org/ https://duktape.org/
asystole 3y ago
It's a cool historic artifact, but I'd argue a browser without JS support these days is like a text editor without syntax highlighting.
- anthk 3y ago
  If the web needs JS to work even to display non-dynamic content, then the web it's utterly broken.
  - bee_rider 3y ago
    A good number of sites are utterly broken. I remember being able to browse normal sites with JavaScript disabled as late as 2010, but since then I’ve had to downgrade to Firefox+noscript.
    - anthk 3y ago
      DilloNG with the PSP user agent and with the remote CSS disabled works surprisingly fine for lots of sites. For everything else, mpv+yt-dlp for media and gopher://magical.fish under lynx/sacc for news/services.
- bufio 3y ago
  I can't see the downsides to a lack of JS or syntax highlighting.
- omaranto 3y ago
  Most of the websites I interact with are either very interactive web apps which have no hope of working without JavaScript or are basically made up of text documents I want to read. It is shocking how much the document-style websites improve if you browse them without JavaScript. People have really put a lot of crap on top of what is basically just a text file.
- bovermyer 3y ago
  Refreshingly lightweight?
- tenebrisalietum 3y ago
  or, it's like a document reader with a far lower amount and chance of security issues.
password4321 3y ago
https://mbasic.facebook.com https://mbasic.facebook.com