Ask HN: Are you interested in a text only browser that runs JavaScript?
Published on: 2025-09-05 12:37:29
There’s much prior art (good overview here: https://sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/#neighbors), but I’m doing something different that wants to exist.
Curious as to response. Probably a few weeks off release yet but here’s a brief screencap: https://youtu.be/_Bs7BoQBoBA (Or if you prefer an asciinema: https://asciinema.org/a/9w6CMnaI9VxiykI1PgVWm4lsi )
Thoughts?
The context is it’s meant for constrained environments (ultra thin client, engine runs remotely or on same machine if you like; security constraints? Bandwidth constraints? Resource constraints? Content constraints?).
Personally, this is a project close to my heart because my first interactions with computers, and even the Internet was textbased back in the days of dialup and BBS systems. But for another reason in the modern era, I often have the feeling I just wanna get away from all the bullshit all the colors and images begging for my attention. I just want a quiet web that works. But I don’t like an extension knowing everything,
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