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What you could do is the "opera mini trick", AKA one beefy server, shared between many users, used to run heavyweight browsers. The pre-rendered DOM from these
by miki123211 1y ago
What you could do is the "opera mini trick", AKA one beefy server, shared between many users, used to run heavyweight browsers. The pre-rendered DOM from these browsers could then be optimized and compressed, HTMX / Liveview style, and sent to the device.
The key insight here is that most smartphones are idle most of the time, so such a server (or group of servers) would need far less processing power than all the smartphones it replaces.
Given a Mitmproxy trace, modern llms could probably quickly build you simple apps for most popular services, leaving the heavyweight browsers for the long tail.
- bArray 1y agoYeah, exactly. I think this could make browsing feasible for small embedded devices. I even had an idea on how to make Youtube possible too with a similar method.