In Org Social, we were talking about eww and its uses. What do you think about it on Mastodon? I mentioned in the thread that I use it for development, to view raw HTML and perform quick searches.

#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.

#Emacs #eww

@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

@khinsen @andros I do similar, setting `browse-url-handlers` to specify actual browsers to use, e.g. for banking sites in my case.

#Emacs #eww

@andros it’s particularly useful with the readable option to quickly add buffer with clean text to #gptel to work on or save plain text for rag if needed etc.

@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.

@andros I figured out why the thread did not include my reply! I hadn't POSTed my feed URL to the relay.