Dear #Fediverse tell me of your favorite lesser known web browsers. Not Firefox, Chrome/Chromium, Safari or Edge but the others.
@satchmoz Probably not what you're looking for, but I always get a kick out of loading a web page in an Emacs buffer with eww. Comes in handy sometimes for viewing documentation, or when I need I to copy something, and it even has view source.
@cstanhope im actually musing about switching over to something more minimalistic and or text mode for most browsing; and I am an Emacs fan.
How does eww hold up compared to emacs-w3m ?
@satchmoz @cstanhope It is so funny, I've been hesitant to suggest #lynx. We are on SDF, I figure lynx is as "mainstream" as IE or Chrome would be elsewhere.
It is in my toolbox as a webcrafter; pages I build have to be lynx-compatible.
But I've started using it habitually after reading phlogs, and it of course works on all my sites, so... ^_^
@satchmoz @maiki @cstanhope lynx is a great piece of software. at one time i used it for file management, usenet news reading, and some weird custom shell stuff for writing as well as for plain old web browsing.
the non-js web is basically a dead letter at this point, but lynx is still in my toolbox for one thing or another.
@satchmoz @brennen @cstanhope I don't know, I have a lot of fun with web forms in #lynx. #WordPress + #GravityForms + #Pods + lynx = dynamic web interactive fun and profit!!1!
@maiki i used to spend a lot of time editing html by navigating it in lynx & hitting "e" to pull up in editor.
...now i wonder if there's some way to map that to static site generator source files.
@brennen @maiki I wonder if you could do it like some high level programming languages that compile to C or another intermediate language do it.
Youd have to patch the static site generator to leave comments or other markers in the HTML from which a patched lynx could deduce the line number for from the original markdown file or template file.
Not trivial but useful.
@satchmoz @brennen I think the relevant sections on how #lynx edits source is found at http://lynx.invisible-island.net/lynx_help/Lynx_users_guide.html#LocalSource.
I generally edit markdown files and push to a remote repo without actually checking, so not sure this workflow works for me personally. ^_^
@brennen When one reads the #lynx manual, they get a sense of the web we missed, and it was cool as fuck.
#interi is an ongoing project, but I intend to include the meta tags that lynx reads, as well as modern equivalents. I like the #pubnix concept, here's my site, corresponding anon FTP, etc. So "progressive web" to me means starting there, and building up. Hence, lynx is my bar. ^_^
@maiki @cstanhope lynx is on my shortlist. Ive honestly been a w3m guy previously. Not sure why ive never given lynx a fair shake for http/https.