LOTW VS colors

Compare LOTW vs colors and see what are their differences.

LOTW

A high-level OS for the modern web platform (legacy version) (by dennykane)

colors

Color standards for terminal emulators (by termstandard)
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LOTW

Posts with mentions or reviews of LOTW. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-03.
  • Linux on the Web: Getting a handle on the files in the browser
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Oct 2023
    I see this directory: https://github.com/linuxontheweb/LOTW/tree/main/root/code/ap...

    how do I play any games on your "https://linuxontheweb.github.io/" demo?

  • You Shouldn’t Use Modals
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Aug 2022
    So, this is about popups inside of browser windows, is it? And not about popups in Windows/Mac/Linux desktops? Because I couldn't start making up my mind until close to the end of the article.

    FWIW, I do make some use of modals in Linux on the Web (source code, admittedly somewhat sloppy: https://github.com/linuxontheweb/LOTW/blob/main/root/code/mo...). In fact, I just tried to make a post about a new app I'm working on (that happens to use them) called "HackerNotify": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32358782

  • Enough with the Notifications
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Aug 2022
    I think I'll take this opportunity to introduce "HackerNotify" (https://lotw.site/net/HackerNotify.app), which is a different kind of interface into the Hacker News backend (via firebase).

    You can tell how many total comments a story has by the color of its title. The ranking from low to high is: dark blue -> light blue -> aqua -> green -> yellow -> orange -> red.

    It has a keyboard-centric interface. Here is the breakdown:

    'Space' toggles an item's open/closed state.

    'Tab' is used to move between items in a list. If an item is in the open state, pressing tab will focus the first item in its list. Otherwise, it will focus the next item in the list that the item is a member of. This is really the "go to" key in the app. If ever in doubt, just hit 'tab'.

    'Enter' is for opening the link (in a new window) to which a "story" item refers. (You can also click the link to open it.)

    'c' is for popping open a comment window to respond to whichever item is in focus.

    'n' is for setting a "notice" to periodically poll the backend for new replies to a given item (story or comment). The current polling period is one minute.

    '/' is for cycling between the 3 screens of the app (Top stories, Watched stories and Notifications).

    '1' is to jump to the "Top stories" screen. (All story titles that start out as "Launch HN:" are filtered out of the listing.)

    '2' is to jump to the "Watched stories" screen. "Watched stories" is the screen that will hold the top level story items that contain notification items that are no longer embedded in the DOM of the "Top stories" screen.

    '3' is to jump to the "Notifications" screen.

    'x' is to delete a given notification. The app currently allows for 5 notifications to be set at any given time.

    'r' is used to refresh a given item to sync it with the firebase backend.

    'Esc' allows you to "escape out" of embedded items. This key also automatically closes items.

    'Ctrl+Esc' allows you to immediately escape out to the top level listing, closing all embedded comments along the way.

    Finally, since there may still be a bug or two in the app's logic, 'Alt+l' is the "hard reset" shortcut that forcefully closes and blurs every item on every screen. If you need to invoke this shortcut, just pressing 'Tab' again should get you back on your feet.

    The link I provided above allows you to open up a Linux on the Web app in the experimental "app mode". If you want to play around with it in its native environment, though, you will need to need to see the LOTW README: https://github.com/linuxontheweb/LOTW#applications

  • Just wondering what “nonsense” Elon likes
    1 project | /r/linuxontheweb | 3 Aug 2022
    Now, take a look at the following file in my github repo: https://github.com/linuxontheweb/LOTW/blob/main/www/img/screenshot.png
  • Things I've learned building a modern TUI framework
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Aug 2022
    Yeah, I don't personally mess with anything but Chrome, and I consider supporting browsers that are not Chromium-based to be a fork of the entire project.

    Per the Disclaimer in the Github README (https://github.com/linuxontheweb/LOTW/):

    ---------------

    LOTW is developed in the crouton environment, which involves ChromeOS in developer mode. All development and testing is currently done on a Chromebook, using an up-to-date Chrome browser.

    The system should basically work in any modern browser and host OS, but there are likely many tiny glitches that degrade the user experience in other browsers and/or operating systems.

    ---------------

    The crucial fact of LOTW is that it is based around the concept of a full-featured, sandboxed file system in your browser. Only Chromium-based browsers natively support that kind of thing via 'webkitRequestFileSystem'.

    That being said, there is a shim/polyfill that is supposed to load and take care of that (https://github.com/linuxontheweb/LOTW/blob/main/www/js/fs-sh..., created by Eric Bidelman when he was at Google). Last I knew, Firefox seemed to work with it.

  • Ask HN: Just wondering what “nonsense” Elon likes
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Aug 2022
    I found it funny that he put out this tweet in which he said, "Some people are no nonsense, but, personally, I like a little nonsense" (), only like a day after I started posting here to try to generate excitement for my site (see my username).

    Now, take a look at the following file in my github repo:

    That image is prominently displayed on the main README of the repo, and as you can tell, it was committed before Elon made his comment. (Also, there are some forks and stars in the repo now, whereas before I started posting here, there were none, so I know at least some people have been appreciating my work.)

    You should be able to plainly see that there is "a little nonsense" in that image! I'm just wondering if you all think that is a coincidence or not...

  • Allocating resources where they solve the most important problems
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jul 2022
    One reason I started working on "Linux on the Web" is that I wanted to work within a paradigm (web development) that has strong connections with current practices but that also can allow me to iterate in directions that are more related to the nuts and bolts of our shared physical reality.

    One thing that nobody ever talks about are the more hardware-centric possibilities of the web platform such as WebUSB, but I would absolutely love to start playing around with it in order to allow for an interface of real world objects with the LOTW system -> https://github.com/linuxontheweb/LOTW

colors

Posts with mentions or reviews of colors. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-24.
  • Terminal app built over WebGPU, WebAssembly and Rust
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 May 2023
    Did anyone actually send Apple a memo? At https://github.com/termstandard/colors#not-supporting-trueco... there are pointers to where people have asked, when they have. There's nothing for Terminal.App.

    (That's the big push that I mentioned. Going since January 2014.)

  • emacsclient in terminal doesn't show theme properly (Doom Emacs)
    1 project | /r/emacs | 26 Jan 2023
    I'm fairly certain that isn't the issue, Emacs in the terminal but not in client mode (right) has absolutely no issues, and all the colors match the theme in GUI mode. To make absolutely sure I've also run these truecolor tests and they all run fine. I've also tried reloading the theme, but the issue persists.
  • Is it possible to use 24-bit ANSI colors in Python?
    1 project | /r/learnpython | 30 Dec 2022
    Even if you can pair it with the right server and settings for 24-bit truecolor, it may not be possible to get all the features you want within a single client. The best you can hope for is that each client-server combo you want to support falls back to something that looks decent.
  • Things I've learned building a modern TUI framework
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Aug 2022
    I finally found a decent source of information:

    https://github.com/termstandard/colors

    The most obvious case of missing support is macOS’s Terminal.app. Years ago I imagine you could theoretically at least query the colours by some side channel, but sandboxing will doubtless have prevented that. And maybe it does support the querying, which to my mind is the more important of the two pieces of functionality when it comes to accessibility.

  • Problem with terminal colors
    2 projects | /r/vim | 30 May 2022
    If PuTTY supports truecolor, try some tests from this https://github.com/termstandard/colors, next question is which solarized plugin are you using? It matters, because they have different options you can tweak. By far the easiest in terms of compatibility is https://github.com/lifepillar/vim-solarized8
  • Color Standards for Terminal Emulators
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Apr 2022
  • [dvtm] Issue with Tabbing in zsh(1)
    1 project | /r/suckless | 14 Jan 2022
    have you tried this
  • Hex and other Colors in VIM
    2 projects | /r/vim | 14 Jan 2022
    most terminals , including CMD on Windows 10, apparently.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing LOTW and colors you can also consider the following projects:

dflat - D-Flat Text Windowing System for UNIX

hauberk - A web-based roguelike written in Dart.

timg - A terminal image and video viewer.

ranger - A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

Consolonia - A cross-platform UI framework for .NET.

colorizer - A Vim plugin to colorize all text in the form #rrggbb or #rgb.

Ink - 🌈 React for interactive command-line apps

rich - Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal.