~vidak :emacs:  

I would definitely use a screenless computer, just so that I never have to look through a web browser every again.

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Vincent  

@vidak I've been thinking lately that the web browser is just a giant malfeature. It gives too much control to the server w.r.t how the data is displayed and organized.

Display, navigation, organization should be the client's responsibility. Interesting to imagine how that might look.

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DanielTux
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@vincent @vidak
As in the HTML3 days? 🙃
Netscape had page navigation controls, but I think I never saw a page that could use it.

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Vincent  

@danielst @vidak What I've been imagining is something that runs Firefox in a framebuffer somewhere and connects to the javascript console.

You write scripts that extract the information you want from any page but you never see the pages themselves and thus never see the ads or the manipulative timelines or any such thing.

There are things close to this already - what is that tool that turns everything into RSS?

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DanielTux  

@vincent @vidak
I don't know, but isn't FFs reader view close to what you want?
Main problem, I think, is that it only works on pages where text and headline are reasonably obvious to extract.

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Vincent  

@danielst @vidak It is a start. I'm thinking much more of something that works at the level of RESTful interfaces (for instance).

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