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233 points monax | 17 comments | | HN request time: 0.527s | source | bottom

We’ve been working on Vaev, a minimal web browser engine built from scratch. It supports HTML/XHTML, the CSS cascade, @page rules for pagination, and print-to-PDF rendering. It even handles calc(), var(), and percentage units—and yes, it renders Google.com (mostly).

This is an experimental project focused on learning and exploration. Networking is basic (http:// and file:// only), and grid layouts aren’t supported yet, but we’re making progress fast.

We’d love your thoughts and feedback.

1. busymom0 ◴[] No.44023540[source]
I wish one of these projects would make a browser which only renders text (so texts and links) and no additional support for media (images, videos, audio etc).

I know there is Lynx but having a non-terminal based browser which could do it would be cool.

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3. monax ◴[] No.44023560[source]
For distraction-free reading?
4. dymk ◴[] No.44023701[source]
Something like Reader View in safari / firefox?
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5. tos1 ◴[] No.44023721[source]
Something like Dillo? (You can disable image rendering in Dillo).
6. revskill ◴[] No.44024158[source]
Then google will use text to show ads.
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7. busymom0 ◴[] No.44024174[source]
Text based ads would be less distracting.
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8. II2II ◴[] No.44024329[source]
Remembering when Google only served text based ads.
9. Telemakhos ◴[] No.44024531[source]
You might be interested in Richard Stallman's method of browsing the web:

> I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it. [0]

I know you wanted something other than lynx, but you could do this with EWW (Emacs web browser or any graphical browser, provided that your proxy wget dropped the images.

[0] https://www.stallman.org/stallman-computing.html

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10. Hashex129542 ◴[] No.44024712[source]
Cool idea!
11. stevage ◴[] No.44025259[source]
Wow. At a certain level, I'm glad that people so peculiar exist.
12. jdironman ◴[] No.44025840{3}[source]
Not if they're inline and you've read an ad before you realized it. Like a YouTube sponsor segment. lol
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13. busymom0 ◴[] No.44025887{4}[source]
Fair. However, text based ads are also very easy to filter out using some sort of extension no?
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14. pndy ◴[] No.44026729[source]
Isn't Ubuntu doing that for at least 3 years or so in terminal during system update?
15. saagarjha ◴[] No.44027070[source]
Those show media.
16. saagarjha ◴[] No.44027075{5}[source]
Yeah, I actually use NordVPN (this comment’s sponsor) for this.
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