Comment by dieggsy
2 days ago
The top comment in the article mentions it, but chawan[1] is really quite neat. Many sites are still have their quirks (or may be broken), but I think it's the closest I've seen a text browser approximate a "real" browser. The support for CSS, JS, and images (depends on your terminal) is already quite impressive even if imperfect. To my knowledge it's an actual browser implementation rather than "cheating" by using an existing browser like browsh (which is still quite cool).
Yep, that's me. :) It's cool when blogs incorporate ActivityPub comments to them.
I liked chawan from the first time it was shown here on HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44293260. It made me add support for CSS Grid API in my sites targeting text browsers.
This!
`chawan` is really good. I use it very often, and it looks very promising.
If you are into „browsing the web in terminal“, you should try it.
Another impressive TUI browser would be https://codeberg.org/janantos/brow6el
> text-mode web browser
> inline images inside the terminal
Now I'm confused
Using Sixel graphics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel
https://www.arewesixelyet.com/
(and also kitty protocol)
Image support has been present in numerous terminal-mode browsers for many years if not decades, generally implemented through the framebuffer, though in some cases the browser will spawn an external image viewer (presuming a graphical environment, e.g., Xorg / Wayland).