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👽 marginalia

What would it take to make a text-focused mobile web browser, one that renders the most minimal of styling and disregards css and js? Like a w3m for android.

2 years ago · 👍 kevinsan, know

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👽 smokey

Theres an android app called 'violoncello' Thats purely text based. its actively updated enough and i like using it. I think thats what youre talking about anyways. Alternatively if you really want to go all out termux has a lynx package · 2 years ago

👽 skyjake

@goodclover You found a bug in Lagrange! Looks like it's the percent character that is not being encoded correctly in the query. · 2 years ago

👽 goodclover

My message is breaking Lagrange/Station in some way so here's a link to it instead: gemini://goodclover.xyz/station-marginalia-reply-1.txt

Tried about 7 different thing and couldn't get it working \shrug/ · 2 years ago

👽 cobradile94

I’d personally love to see modern WML browsers made for mobile, as WML pretty much does what you describe. · 2 years ago

👽 marginalia

@mc I don't mean actually porting programs like w3m to android, what I'm interested in is making a browser with a similarly text-oriented interface, not necessarily console based. The protocols are a separate issue. · 2 years ago

👽 mc

@kevinsan That's great. Unfortunately, Lynx opens gopher but not gemini. @marginalia w3m does not open gopher or gemini. · 2 years ago

👽 ser

A willingness to run a Linux-based mobile OS, like Mobian, PostMarket, or PureOS. · 2 years ago

👽 kevinsan

It looks like someone did this 10 years ago. I wonder if there's a working apk? https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/app-compiled-lynx-binary-for-android-shell-or-adb.1188883/#post-16050683 · 2 years ago