[BRLTTY] Is there a feature-compatible text-based browser

[Aura Kelloniemi]

Hi list,

On 2025-09-17 at 10:55 -0400, <kperry at blinksoft.com> wrote:
 > Then let me back track.  I have not used lynx since 2001.  That is when I
 > Switched from Linux as my default machine. Things sound like they are
 > different so I will check and see if the interface is as bad as I remember
 > before I give up on it.

 > I still am not sure I want to be locked into lynx as an interface.

The user interface is a matter of configuration (and of course, implementing
the configuration options). But it is entirely a different question to design
a browser in a way that it either supports dynamic rendering of contents or
does not.

Turning Lynx into a browser which has a notion of dynamically changing DOM is
probably going to be very difficult as the browser has not been designed to
support this. Building a new browser interface which emulates Lynx is not that
bad at all, if the user interface is designed to be customizable.

And don't even know if there is any point in implementing a static web browser
with JavaScript support. I once did this. I bolted elinks to preprocess web
pages using PhantomJS (this was trivial). It worked, kind of, but most sites
looked almost the same as without any JavaScript execution as the contents
were not dynamically updated. Some sites which worked without JavaScript
stopped working altogether, because PhantomJS disregarded <noscript />
elements. There was basically no gain and I never used this browser in
practice.

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AUra