alt Hacker NewsI just don't understand...what is the use case of this? I thought it would be something that cleverly renders text without style in a minimalist-browser sort of way. But this just literally...shows you the web page...in the CLI? I'm confused.
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I don't think any of these text-based web browsers are actively maintained;
"Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser" (2018) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17487552
browsh-org/browsh: A fully-modern text-based browser, rendering to TTY and browsers https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh
"Forking Chrome to render in a terminal" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34547259
fathyb/carbonyl: Chromium running inside your terminal https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl
chawan: TUI Web Browser https://sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/
Ladybird browser may be easier to build a TUI terminal user interface for than other brothers because of Lagom FWIU (LibWeb and LibJs are already decoupled from the UI and rendering)
You could terminal into a remote machine terminal and use a web browser in the tty without needing an X11 windowing support.