Trying out text based browsers with my #snac2 instance this morning.

#lynx works fine, but the rendered page is terribly messy.

Toot tui is pushing Tooi as a replacement, only
Tooi borks with a python timeline validation error

#chawan just infinitely loops proposing a login. I can get Chawan to work via brutaldon.org and mastodon.social, but not with my snac2 instance.

UPDATE: The Author of Chawan fixed the login problem and now it works.

#W3M logs in, but like lynx the rendering is messy, not to mention furiously blinking images. Thankfully I'm no longer epileptic.

It would seem at this first look, that the #fediverse isn't adapted to #terminal clients, or the contrary. I was hoping for some kind of #gopher like result, but so far no luck. Perhaps these two worlds aren't meant to collide and I'm asking too much.


Using #w3m to debug my VM setup in a #nixos test feeling like a hacker.
Interacting with #miniflux with #w3m is SO darn satisfying. #SmolWeb#microblogging #MicroToot:       68 characters

@nathanael @joel I did a quick test with #w3m and to my surprise it works and doesn't look too bad.

Bookmarked.

Argh. #freebsd does not want to be a desktop on an #Ideapad. I have a truly aggravating time identifying the video devices to start #x11. And yesterday it decided to forget a number of installed packages, like #w3m or the video drivers. I just #pkg install what I noticed missing, but I don't have a clue why marked them not installed.

I shall, at some point, get freebsd to work. Someday.

@evgandr

Hey bud, IIRC, I couldn't get it working. :/

Looking at my past statuses with the #brutaldon hashtag, it looks like I got it working with #NetSurf and #w3m, but I don't see anything from (nor recall getting it working with) #Dillo. :/

Servo 2025 Stats
https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/servo-2025-stats/

On this curve we clearly see the drop in contributions following the abandon by Mozilla and the incredible rise since.

2023 was already a better year than 2020, and it was x3 in 2025 compared to Mozilla's period. A beautiful square-root shaped curve : √

Ok it's not ready yet, but a lot of people are rushing toward this goal.

#Servo #webbrowser #browser #firefox #chrome #chromium #mozilla #GoodByMozilla #librewolf #zenbrowser #falkon #waterfox #TorBrowser #vanadium #thorium #vivaldi #helium #brave #edge #opera #safari #orion #ladybird #angelfish #netsurf #dillo #iridium #lynx #w3m

😆 Ah, the #nostalgia of text-based browsers! This writer's love letter to #Lynx and #w3m is a trip down memory lane, where CSS is a four-letter word and *JavaScript* is a myth. 🚀 Spoiler: They don't matter, but hey, enjoy your pixelated, featureless web, grandpa! 🔍
https://cssence.com/2026/text-based-web-browsers/ #textbasedbrowsers #retroweb #pixelatedweb #HackerNews #ngated
Text-based web browsers

How do they fare with (not so) recent additions to HTML?

@rl_dane @stefano

The javascript tool yt-dlp uses is deno

Ill play with it later in the day

https://deno.com/

#sh #shell #bash #csh #ksh #zsh #programming #technology #deno #fedimeteo #weather #w3m #sed #tr #pipe

Deno, the next-generation JavaScript runtime

Deno features improved security, performance, and developer experience compared to its predecessor. It's a great time to upgrade your Node.js project to run on Deno.

Deno