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Neat. I'm trying to write a browser, of a kind, which is focused on only presenting content, navigation, and an index of content where appropriate. I'll try to incorporate things like this into my thinking.

(Browser is here, very early stages, not appropriate for any kind of use really while I move to fltk: https://github.com/jmthackett/freeflow )



Your project looks really neat. I wish for a browser that only connects to localhost and never makes network calls under any condition, so that it’s purely the interface to a desktop app without compromise of security or privacy. A less important wishlist item if for browsers to render a DOM from an extended markdown instead of HTML so that accessibility and semantics are always correct by default.


I have been looking for exactly this sort of thing for ages, I'm so glad to have found your comment!


Thanks! It is still early days and I don't have much time but I'm telling myself I'd like to be able to daily drive my news sites with it eventually.

Annoyingly it segfaults a bit at the moment, but it'll get there with time.


You can’t change the internet. You could change the browser. Nice.


Neat! Sounds like the kind of thing that would pair well with RSS feeds. I'll definitely keep an eye on this!


Thanks! It uses RSS if it is present. Plus sitemap.xml if that's available, too.




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