mccOkay. Okay! The web browser I wrote today is now working! Except for the web browser part.
I will do the web browser part of the web browser tomorrow
This is not a joke, I am creating a command line browser (a la lynx, w3m, links) based on servo, which I am calling Cuervo because command-line servo. So far you can bring up a dialog box to enter a URL, choose to either enter a URL or abort, and if you launch with LANG=es the interface is in Spanish. This is actually not that bad for one day considering at the start of the day I literally just had the ratatui "popup" sample and nothing else!
My name is Gordo@mcc I dig tf out of this.
@gordoooo_z I miss the era when w3m worked.
@gordoooo_z When the world changed around it so much javascript started being necessary to view basic websites :(
Sven "DrMcCoy" Hesse@mcc @gordoooo_z even google randomly stops working when it hits you with a "you look like a bot, solve this captcha" after a few queries in w3m. It's very annoying
@gordoooo_z @mcc yeah, but at least you can solve them in Firefox, annoying as they are
In w3m, without JavaScript? No chance
@DrMcCoy @gordoooo_z *thinking* sooo… the whole point of cuervo is to be w3m with JavaScript… but actually I'm not sure if that's going to help so much without graphics, sound, or a mouse… I was CONSIDERING graphics but…
@mcc @gordoooo_z there is (used to be?) a way to integrate graphics into w3m, IIRC using either the framebuffer or some X magic. Been a while since I had either working, though
And my current use case for w3m is from the office when I just have an ssh in wsl, I don't think either would work there anyway
I mean, I'd love it if you could actually provide a mystical solution there, don't get me wrong :P
@DrMcCoy @gordoooo_z brow.sh just displays graphics using Unicode box drawing characters. You could plausibly solve a visual captcha this way if you zoomed in enough, but you wouldn't enjoy it, and eventually i think i will be able to reduce the size of cuervo by over a hundred megabytes by removing the graphics, so… i don't know
maybe the framebuffer is an option but all framebuffer use cases raise the question "why are you not doing this in x11"