#emacs #eww #orgmode #orgsocial
@andros eww is my go to browser for any new site (and ones I already know work well in eww). If I find that eww is not suitable for a particular site, I simply type '&' (bound to `eww-browse-with-external-browser`) to view the site in, for instance, firefox or vivaldi.
What I like about eww is that it doesn't have any scripting support so is inherently safer than many graphical browsers.
@ericsfraga Same for me. I have set browse-url-browser-function to a function that dispatches on the URL by simple pattern matching. Sites that I use frequently and that require JS are opened in the system browser (LibreWolf). Everything else is opened in eww.
@andros I tried out org-social for the first time yesterday and saw that post! I replied there that it is shocking how many websites that are just meant to have articles you can read actually *improve* without JavaScript. And I also mentioned that one trick I enjoy is open 2 or 3 windows, with vertical splits, onto the same eww buffer and to enable follow-mode, in order to read an article in several columns (it makes anything feel like a newspaper).
By the way, I'm still super confused by org-social. Every single time I view the timeline I get an error that says "[error] request--callback: peculiar error: 403" but things work anyway (and by the way, I only agree that the error is peculiar because the error message includes the word "peculiar"!). Another weird thing is that if I press the thread button on my reply to that post about eww, it opens a view where I see your post and only one reply to it, and it isn't my reply —which is where I pressed the thread button! I'm sure with more use I'll come to understand these quirks but it is pretty confusing at first.