[HN Gopher] Show HN: A tiny web browser implementation with V8 J...
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Show HN: A tiny web browser implementation with V8 JavaScript
engine and Rust
Author : y0n3uchy
Score : 123 points
Date : 2021-07-11 07:50 UTC (15 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| torgoguys wrote:
| Wow, very neat! I'm happy to see you implemented it as a TUI.
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| While I know this isn't the focus of this project, I think we
| need a TUI browser that can run the modern web and there just
| doesn't seem to be anything out there, other than brow.sh, but
| the author hasn't had time to push that over the finish line.
| hanniabu wrote:
| How does this classify as a TUI?
| bscphil wrote:
| Judging by the screenshot, it is quite literally a text-based
| (or terminal) user interface.
| hanniabu wrote:
| Ah okay, different TUI than googling showed me
| ayon1922 wrote:
| love chrome
| emptyparadise wrote:
| Are there any JavaScript engines in Rust?
| eatonphil wrote:
| https://github.com/boa-dev/boa
| MrAwesome wrote:
| Lovely! Really excited to see any progress in this space. I found
| long ago that I thrive most in a terminal-only environment when
| I'm trying to maintain focus. The browser is my primary reason
| for running a graphical environment (and obviously also the
| primary source of distraction), and it feels liberating to
| imagine even a basic js-capable TUI browser.
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| I wonder too if work in this space would reap rewards for vision-
| impaired accessibility on sites not designed for it. Does anyone
| know if that's the case?
| mysterydip wrote:
| Love TUI browsers, excited to try a new one! How's memory
| footprint?
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