A retro-themed web-browser for the terrminal with command line.
An experiment in minimalistic textual web experience meant to be easily ported to retro-homoecomputer architectures such as 6502, z80.
- Parses and displays simlified HTML
- Using ANSI colors for retro-style display
- CSS is ignored
- Javascript is ignored
- No cookies, GDR, popups etc
- Aims to minimize latency as in TTFC (Time To First Char)
It started as a feature of the ORIC ATMOS WebBasic Simulator, running in the browser.
- retro.js is an extract of that code, incomplete, and unfinished. This can be used as a browser inside the browser. LOL
- w.c is a smaller plain C-code implementation.
Well, it's not in any place where normal sites can be used, or displayed in pleasing ways, but it's a funny interesting concept.
Files:
- ./w< - user script to call, will compile if w.c changed
- w.c - the actual code - the workhorse.
- entities.h - list of HTML entities stored in one long string, genereated from entities.json using entities.js and then sow manual editing (already done - only needs to be done one time)
Test files:
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./w test.html - general testfile and examples, and bug-tracker!
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./w google.com - rendered like crap; Google uses a lot of &#nnnn; entities.
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w - in this start/compile script, there are many URLs
w.c - the actual code to render
- a modular streamed browser
- commands can be external independent scripts
- easily extensible (Unix-style/CGI-style)
- plain C to be portable to even smaller 8-bit systems
- stream download HTML
- stream parse HTML
- serial out
- ansi display HTML serially
- go link by number
- go link by
- page down
- line down
- beginning
- page up
- [ ]
- keep history (append)
- tabs/several buffers
- bookmarks?
- cookies?
- news (check bookmarks, sort, order)
- Look into caca-library (https://github.com/cacalabs/libcaca)
