[HN Gopher] Bone - Minimalist Display of Websites
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Bone - Minimalist Display of Websites
Author : graderjs
Score : 40 points
Date : 2021-10-04 08:47 UTC (2 days ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| encryptluks2 wrote:
| > Bone is meant as a tool to display websites without the
| overhead of tabs, decorations, and other interface elements that
| can make it bloaty.
|
| Checks source code... JavaScript. LOL, when will they ever figure
| it out?
| jokethrowaway wrote:
| If you have a good tiling manager you just need a lightweight
| single tab browser with mostly shared libraries and one process
| per window / tab / whatever abstraction is supported by your
| tiling manager
| thih9 wrote:
| I think I prefer opening a new browser window; the tab bar isn't
| displayed for windows with just a single tab open (at least in
| safari) and I get to use my system's window manager.
| jareklupinski wrote:
| i like the tiling / layout focus
|
| i'm frequently using one tab as a 'reference' while skimming for
| information in 5+ other tabs, pausing at each one when I find
| what I need, before I can finally use the product of all the tabs
| concurrently to finish the thing i'm working on (schematic /
| layout / datasheet / forum post / github page is a common one)
|
| i would love a way to 'split' a single tab into two so i can keep
| something on one tab in view while I search for the related info
| in the new split view, then be able to split one of those new
| tabs into two, then one of those into two... :)
|
| windows just managed to figure out "drag window to side of screen
| to tile" (mac still cant do this!) and it's helped a lot, but
| when you're trying to fill a 21:9 screen with info just to make
| sure a specific chip register is on the right bus...
| schwartzworld wrote:
| Not a browser, but iTerm2 has this functionality built in. I
| could see how it would be awesome in a browser.
| fowlie wrote:
| Nice, but this does not make any sense for people who are using
| tiling window managers. There already exists minimalist web
| browsers without menu bars etc. like Suckless software's surf, or
| the qutebrowser.
| bibble wrote:
| Hoped this was going to simplify the CSS on websites, down to
| just the basics, without fully disabling it :D
| winternett wrote:
| A new and rebranded return to 1997 HTML?
|
| "Web -3.0"?
|
| Seriously though UI/UX and Human Design seem to be lost arts
| these days as template sites took over. Because of mobile
| phones and many different screen formats, sites are crazy in
| form and function. We should probably seriously all consider
| going back to a Human Centered focus, and to revert to the
| practice of perfectly simplifying function, controls, and
| features in everything we develop.
| spindle wrote:
| The excellent qutebrowser (and probably several other browsers?)
| can easily be set up to not have tabs or status bars or anything.
|
| I'm sure the other features of Bone are interesting though, like
| the tiling.
| metalliqaz wrote:
| F11 in Firefox gets rid of all of it.
| metalliqaz wrote:
| tiling is one of those things that always look cool to me on
| project websites but I would never, ever use myself. I admit I
| just can't convince myself that people actually use these
| projects in their day-to-day. Are they just neat projects? Do
| they just make great screenshots?
|
| I always browse in only one of two configurations: maximized
| window, or two maximized in vertical split (Win+left and
| Win+Right key combos). Anything smaller, such as giving a page
| just the lower-right quarter of the screen as in the screenshots,
| would just be way too small for any modern pages to render in a
| useful way.
|
| Ok so making one split may technically be tiling, but I don't
| think that's what anyone really means when they are talking about
| tiling. They're talking about at least three subdivisions.
|
| Surely I can't be the only one like this.
| Zababa wrote:
| > I always browse in only one of two configurations: maximized
| window, or two maximized in vertical split (Win+left and
| Win+Right key combos).
|
| I only ever use my computer this way, except for a few floating
| windows like quick terminal stuff or using a file picker.
|
| I do think a tiling window manager would be fine, I would just
| switch to a new desktop if I need new windows, and I wouldn't
| have to manage the windows manually.
| fossuser wrote:
| Yeah - I used xmonad on arch for a bit in college for the
| novelty and agree. Magnet on macOS is good enough. The other
| thing about tiling window managers is often the graphics of the
| window are really ugly with bad fonts - not specifically a
| tiling issue but another thing I didn't like about using it.
|
| I use a large high res display too - the advantage from tiling
| just isn't that real or important imo.
| jeppesen-io wrote:
| I can relate. I've tried various tilling solutions, but they
| never actually work in the real world. Always an edge case or
| you lose basic functions like adjusting everything when you
| dock a laptop
|
| That was until I used paperwm. It's diffent from most tiling
| because it works out of the box for everything I do daily.
| Slack, zoom, terminal and chrome mostly
|
| It does this by scrolling horizontally and all windows default
| full height. Matches perfectly to my mental model of window
| workflow
|
| Works so nicely because you hide windows without minimizing,
| just scroll away
|
| I've always thought of it as tiling for humans, in a joking
| manner
| csdvrx wrote:
| In Windows, I have a AHK script that turns a window into a
| small rectangle at the bottom of my screen, with 70%
| transparency, always on top, no titlebar: it lets me continue
| on my current task with minimal distraction, as it's see-
| through.
|
| I use that to keep an eye on long running operations, on notes
| I take in notepad during a conference call, etc.
|
| I press again the key, and the windows becomes another normal
| window again.
|
| I guess that's tiling?
|
| Otherwise, I do as you do for most of my apps: I run them in
| full screen mode, but no task bar, not even a titlebar as I
| find that too distracting. I strip down most of the details
| until only the app itself remains. It helps me focus, and
| remove useless cruft.
|
| About cruft, IDE are among the most awful offenders, full of so
| many ribbons, margins and other gimmicks that they ressemble
| Word in its hayday ( check
| https://i.huffpost.com/gen/714057/thumbs/o-MICROSOFT-TOOLBAR...
| if you don't get what I mean ), with less and less of the
| screen usable for the actual principal function: writing (and
| reading)
| metalliqaz wrote:
| that's a neat idea, put it on github :)
| stronglikedan wrote:
| I tile (in the traditional sense) when I have the screen real
| estate to do so. Particularly when using large (>=32") screens
| with at least 4k resolution. However, I do find Windows built-
| in window arrangement tools (Win+arrows) to be suitable for
| that task.
| metalliqaz wrote:
| I have a quad-monitor setup, perhaps all my maximized windows
| are technically "tiled"...
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