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

[kperry at blinksoft.com]

There were dynamic pages when the mobile manager ran the old version of firefox and front end.  I wouldn't say our solution was perfect back then but I think there are methods to deal with it. These automation solutions are used to test everything from regular pages to fully dynamic pages so they have methods to test it thus there should be a way to deal with it if we come up with a good text solution to dynamic content.

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From: BRLTTY <brltty-bounces at brltty.app> On Behalf Of Aura Kelloniemi
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Subject: Re: [BRLTTY] Is there a feature-compatible text-based browser

Hi Nicolas, et al.

On 2025-09-18 at 20:22 -0400, Nicolas Pitre <nico at fluxnic.net> wrote:
 > But you could use pretty much any web browser you want as the proxy I'm  > working on produces plain HTML.

Do you have any plans for addressing the problem of dynamically chaning contents, like Single Page Applications (SPAs)?

Some sort of page refresh should be possible using the reload functionality of the frontend browser, but sending input events to the backend browser is probably more difficult.

As I explained elsewhere, my experience with combining ELinks with phantomjs was pretty bad, as it mostly made websites more dysfunctional due to the lack of dynamic JavaScript execution. Many sites start loading the main page contents once the initial page has been rendered. Many forms have their fields changing based on input to other rfields, etc.

I'm not trying to shoot your project down – not at all, I am just worried because of my prior negative experience with a similar technique.

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Aura
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