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RetroFit

A retro-themed web-browser for the terrminal with command line.

Purpose

An experiment in minimalistic textual web experience meant to be easily ported to retro-homoecomputer architectures such as 6502, z80.

Features

  • Parses and displays simlified HTML
  • Using ANSI colors for retro-style display
  • CSS is ignored
  • Javascript is ignored
  • No cookies, GDR, popups etc
  • Aims to minimize latency as in TTFC (Time To First Char)

Origin

It started as a feature of the ORIC ATMOS WebBasic Simulator, running in the browser.

Versions

  • retro.js is an extract of that code, incomplete, and unfinished. This can be used as a browser inside the browser. LOL
  • w.c is a smaller plain C-code implementation.

How to use

Well, it's not in any place where normal sites can be used, or displayed in pleasing ways, but it's a funny interesting concept.

Files:

  • ./w< - user script to call, will compile if w.c changed
  • w.c - the actual code - the workhorse.
  • entities.h - list of HTML entities stored in one long string, genereated from entities.json using entities.js and then sow manual editing (already done - only needs to be done one time)

Test files:

  • ./w test.html - general testfile and examples, and bug-tracker!

  • ./w google.com - rendered like crap; Google uses a lot of &#nnnn; entities.

  • w - in this start/compile script, there are many URLs

    w.c - the actual code to render

Wants

  • a modular streamed browser
  • commands can be external independent scripts
  • easily extensible (Unix-style/CGI-style)
  • plain C to be portable to even smaller 8-bit systems

Possible TODO:

  • stream download HTML
  • stream parse HTML
  • serial out
  • ansi display HTML serially
  • go link by number
  • go link by
  • page down
  • line down
  • beginning
  • page up
  • [ ]
  • keep history (append)
  • tabs/several buffers
  • bookmarks?
  • cookies?
  • news (check bookmarks, sort, order)

Graphics