tombh

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   by tombh 8y ago

   I've thought of that too. The trouble is that Browsh's text renderer is more of a science than an art. It's quite hard to actually get a guarantee of the same text twice, which is a pretty important condition of testing. But
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   by tombh 8y ago

   damn, yes, that's indeed perceptive
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   by tombh 8y ago

   Thanks for your advice, it's really helpful. I agree, I think it has a large gimmick factor, for which I don't think there's a huge amount of $ (though it does help spread the word). You have a good point about finding a nich
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   by tombh 8y ago

   I don't understand your point
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   by tombh 8y ago

   You can manually add any of Firefox's extensions: https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/issues/45
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   by tombh 8y ago

   Yes you're right, it's unfair to lump elinks and lynx together. It's before Browsh I would use elinks all the time as it seemed the most modern. Surely though just the sheer fact of CSS's `hidden` declaration has to be t
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   by tombh 8y ago

   Oh! I didn't know that, I'm sure you're right. What do you think a better wording would be?
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   by tombh 8y ago

   Browsh's raison d'etre is really about saving bandwidth. I first had the problem of bandwidth whilst living in Ladakh in Northern India, where I simply could not use the modern web. I expect Browsh not to be run on the same machin
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   by tombh 8y ago

   This is related to: https://html.brow.sh/https://chocolatkey.com/blog/mathletics... Do you still get the warning with the latest v1.2.3? https://www.brow.sh/downloads/
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    by tombh 8y ago

    Yesh I had :D
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    by tombh 8y ago

    What do you mean by access to machines? Like SSH access? Do you think such a service would be significantly different to an email service in terms of privacy concerns?
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    by tombh 8y ago

    Ha, that's a very long story. The gist though is that some custom CSS forces a given webpage into a strict, monospaced, mono-sized grid. Then JS queries DOM text nodes for their contents and precise positions. Then using the standard r
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    by tombh 8y ago

    AFAIK it's not integrated yet. But anyway, I'm still wrong as lynx does support SNI: https://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx2.8.8/features.html#im...
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    by tombh 8y ago

    Wow, thanks!
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    by tombh 8y ago

    Yes, sorry about that. I'm still getting used to Golang. So I need to consistently catch panics and I ensure the right ANSI escape sequence gets sent to the terminal before it finally exits.
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    by tombh 8y ago

    Arguably you could say the same about Opera's "wrapping" of the Chrome libs.
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    by tombh 8y ago

    Loads of ideas! So well first I need to identify what people want and are willing to pay for. I like the awards for lo-fi websites, I could have a showcase section of the website.
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    by tombh 8y ago

    Terminal.app doesn't support true colour :( So it can't properly take advantage of the UTF-8 half block trick to get 2 pixels of colour from each cell - thus creating the banding effect you see.
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    by tombh 8y ago

    Do they support SNI? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1527856
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    by tombh 8y ago

    I'm not sure that's true, for example elinks doesn't support SNI: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1527856
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    by tombh 8y ago

    I'm actually already pretty decided against this. Simply because I won't the basic engine to be as text-focused as possible, as then we have a universal source of the modern web in pure text format, that multiple other clients (te
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    by tombh 8y ago

    Great ideas, I'd not thought of them. So might be worth researching some contacts in those fields.
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    by tombh 8y ago

    Links doesn't even support modern SSL :/ The modern age requires a multi-gigabyte program to use the Internet, that's just our reality. So the whole point of Browsh is that you can now offload this from your local machine (eg
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    by tombh 8y ago

    What do you think of its potential for use in regions with slow and/or expensive Internet (South America seems to be the worst off here), where I could come to some arrangement with a local NGO/GO to fund server costs and developm
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    by tombh 8y ago

    By down, do you mean this? https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/issues/58
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    by tombh 8y ago

    Thanks! What are you seeing when the server isn't working?
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    by tombh 8y ago

    That sort of thing is actually causing spikes in load on the cluster. I think the quickness of the requests must skip the cache. So it's a bug really, I just need to detect recursive URLs and extract the deepest link.
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    by tombh 8y ago

    Curiously, Chrome doesn't support extensions in headless mode. And Browsh needs to run some custom CSS and JS to help with parsing, so Chrome was a no go. You can inject CSS and JS using the RPC though, but that RPC standard ( https:&#
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    by tombh 8y ago

    Use the `-firefox` flag. However the Windows binary has other problems. You can use the free live demos though: `ssh brow.sh` and https://html.brow.sh
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    by tombh 8y ago

    Exactly. As well SSH/Mosh access there's a HTTP service, that currently only outputs static, noninteractive HTML and basic graphics. For example: https://html.brow.sh/https://news.ycombinator.com/ite