Brow.sh: a modern text-based browser

Yes it's super slow, but many of the criticisms are missing the point. This enables browsing over SSH when you have low bandwidth. The heavy internetting is done on the remote machine (like a cloud VM for example) using blazing fast data center internet. A personal example may explain why I love this. For several years I lived in rural Alaska where the fastest internet one could buy was $120 a month (I think) and a blazing 512 Kbps. I…

I wrote an HTML renderer [0] as part of euporie [1], which I'm planning on eventually spinning into a new terminal browser (but it needs a bit more work first). There's no JS support, but a good chunk of CSS is implemented, and images are displayed using terminal graphics if your terminal supports it. You can try it out by passing a URL to `euporie-notebook`. [1] https://github.com/joouha/euporie/blob/dev/euporie/core/ft/h... [0] https://github.com/joouha/euporie

This is a very cool project. It uses headless firefox and then renders to the terminal. Text remains text, and then videos and images get projected to super low res bitmap-via-characters in real time.

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17487552, since that one was posted by the author. We'll put it in the second-chance queue so it'll get an extra shot at the front page. (This is described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380 and links back from there.)