Comment by xelxebar

Comment by xelxebar 9 hours ago

One of my favorite pieces of software is edbrowse[0]. Perhaps surprisingly, I find it quite useful:

  - Main developer is blind, so accessibility has priority;
  - Easily scriptable; think automating captive portal clickthroughs;
  - Reading articles (e.g. Wikipedia) feels closer to reading a book;
  - It even supports JavaScript to a degree!
  - The affordances of line-oriented editing carry over nicely.

In particular, when using line-oriented interfaces, it's quite natural to build up a small collection of context-dependent snippets from documentation, source code, sample code, whatever. Putting a small collage of these on the screen is effortless and an experience I do miss with other UI paradigms.

The main developer appears to tinker on the project daily and is quite nice to chat with over on libera's #edbrowse. The project does have a small, dedicated following, but I wish more people knew about it!

[0]:https://github.com/edbrowse/edbrowse

ploum 7 hours ago

edbrowse is awesome. I fear that most people, like OP in this case, don’t really understand the difference between "TUI" (where a terminal is used to display a GUI) and "CLI", where every interaction is a written command resulting in a output.

I’ve a perfect sight myself but I really like the comfort of linearity with CLI: I ask my computer something, I receive an answer.

(that’s probably why I’m developping my own CLI browser but is more graphical and less advanced than edbrowse)

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isametry 2 hours ago

> my own CLI browser but is more graphical
So based on the first paragraph, I would’ve assumed “CLI” and “graphical” were mutually exclusive? Did you in fact mean to type “TUI” here? Or is your program something like a hybrid between command-based input and graphical output?

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- anthk an hour ago
  
  No, Offpunk it's command line driven, it just happens it can output images due to sixel support (and maybe in a near future with the w3m's image displaying tool).
  
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cess11 3 hours ago

Looks cool, thanks for recommending it.

I usually go with w3m for my weirder needs that lie somewhere between a pure HTTP client and a regular web browser, this seems like it might be even more convenient sometimes.

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anthk 8 hours ago

I used to use that to fetch odd Japanese translated ROMs from CD Romance. Inb4 some Copyright holder says "buy them legally"... these games won't be released in the West ever.

In Europe most people played Earthbound (and USA only releases for SNES/MD) under emulators. That's how Nintendo put it in the Super Smash Bros roster. They say the hate emulation; but these tools cemented themselves into retroemulation like no other system, and helped to bring new sagas to the West. For free. You say you lost money because of retro-piracy? You got free marketing for physical scraps technically resting in a warehouse.

Altough nowadays I'm 100% pro libre gaming; tons of indie/FOSS philosophy overlap: FreedroidRPG, Battle for Wesnoth, Nethack/Slashem, ReTux, SuperTux2...

Back to edbrowse, it's a mail, irc and SQL client too; and you can script it, a la ed/vi, so you can do magic here.

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