Re: terminal only for two weeks

On Tue, 26 Nov 2024, yeti wrote:

D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
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I have been thinking about moving the reading part of web browsing
into the terminal as well, but haven't found a browser I'm happy
with.

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I use Elinks, Emacs/EWW and W3m, but none of them can replace the scary
fullfat browsers.  They seem to just fit Smolweb stuff (FTP, Gemini,
Gopher and similar).

True.

Maybe it would be possible to write a kind of "pre-processor" that
formats web sites with a text based browser in mind?

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Despite me finding this solution really scary, something like that
indeed exists:
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   <https://www.brow.sh/>

Ah yes... I've seen this before! I did drop it due to its dependency on FF, but the concept is similar. My idea was to aggressively filter a web page before passing it on to elinks or similar.
Perhaps rewriting it a bit in order to avoid the looooooong list of menu options or links that always come up at the top of the page, before the content of the page shows after a couple of page downs (this happens for instance if I go to wikipedia).
Instead parsing it, and adding those links at the bottom, removing javascript, and perhaps passing on only the text. Well, those are only ideas. Maybe I'll try, maybe I won't. Time will tell! =)