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387 points shiomiru | 1 comments | 16 Jun 25 20:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source

A terminal-based web browser in Nim.[1] Has acceptable (YMMV) CSS rendering, some JS support, and inline images (sixel/kitty). It can also use various protocols other than http(s) such as (s)ftp, gopher, gemini, ...

Chawan started out as a w3m clone, and the UI still resembles it. However, the architecture has turned out quite different, with pages loaded in separate processes, and protocol/file type handling separated out into external binaries. An interesting result is that you can even register decoders for custom inline image formats, although practical use cases of this are rather minimal.

There is a gallery showcasing some websites being rendered here: https://chawan.net/gallery/index.html

[1]: https://nim-lang.org

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ijustlovemath ◴[16 Jun 25 21:48 UTC] No.44293716[source]▶

>>44293260 (OP) #

My jaw dropped when HN loaded first try from Termux! Nice work!

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1. shiomiru ◴[16 Jun 25 22:15 UTC] No.44293893[source]▶

>>44293716 #

Thanks :)

If you're interested, I posted a user style for HN here: https://lists.sr.ht/~bptato/chawan-devel/%3CD9S40OS2QWHL.PXQ...

Mainly just to fix the vote arrows, because for now background-image only renders placeholders.

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