how user agents became a lying mess

Dear ImGui frontend for the Ladybird browser engine from SerenityOS.

Request web pages and other documents through email. They get turned into plain text, sadly, and Unicode gets removed.

via Devine in this cool Merveilles thread by Luci who thought of something similar:

• https://merveilles.town/@zens/112849957122568227

Ladybird is an ongoing project to build a truly independent web browser from scratch.

From offpunk chat

I conclude that it is impossible to build a new web browser. The complexity of the web is obscene. The creation of a new web browser would be comparable in effort to the Apollo program or the Manhattan project.

A classic read.

Safari is holding back the web. It is the new IE, after all. In contrast, Chrome is pushing the web forward so hard that it’s starting to break. Meanwhile web developers do nothing except moan and complain. The only thing left to do is to pick our poison.

This is actually why I prefer Safari.

Now split into three separate packages. Still in Python.

Cartographist is an ‘experimental web browser optimized for rabbit-holing’ notable for its paned user interface. It is written in Node JS. I haven't tried it out yet.

See also blog announcement. The development seems stalled.

woob is a collection of applications able to interact with websites, without requiring the user to open them in a browser. It also provides well-defined APIs to talk to websites lacking one.

Prahou teaches us how to browse the webs.

An app that lets you add various links and displays them in a column layout. You can create a unified dashboard of several social networks, news feeds, and such with it.

A fork of both Dillo and Dillo NG with cool stuff added. Smolweb supported: Gopher and Gemini. All of a sudden, Telegram channels too? Plugins? I'll try it.