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Show HN: Chawan TUI web browser

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387 points shiomiru | 3 comments | 16 Jun 25 20:48 UTC | HN request time: 0.672s | 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

1. eMPee584 ◴[17 Jun 25 06:26 UTC] No.44296213[source]▶
Thanks, always appreciate ways of not using another blink engine for a brief research side quest! looking forward to test after school ; )

As it hasn't been brought up yet, a really great hack (esp. for us without sixel) is this terminal port of chromium: https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl .. but the original creator hasn't had time to get back to it. So it is very bare bones & lacks a lot of features, like keyboard shortcuts, file saving.. but obviously it brings full web compatibility and is just very cool. Wishing for someone with rust skills to pick it up again, last time I looked (couple of months ago) none of the forks had any momentum.

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2. Imustaskforhelp ◴[17 Jun 25 11:41 UTC] No.44297934[source]▶
Side note but on the carbonyl github post, everyone keeps asking about the author's health as if he's safe or not, given he is palestinian.

I hope the author is safe. His work was really good,I must say. Fuck wars in general.

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3. eMPee584 ◴[21 Jun 25 13:20 UTC] No.44337403[source]▶
Well his github profile says he's in France, so let's hope he's kinda safe.. But yeah, fuck wars in general. Also, fuck the generals.. and their commanders. Oh, and the whole military-industrial complex as well. We urgently need a transition towards a planetary non-commercial commons-based economy..