browservice VS carbonyl

Browservice - proxy but goes one step further and renders the page and actually only sends back a clickable image to the browser on the old machine. Almost like screensharing.

I have a [Browservice](https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice) server set up for the faster machines, which basically streams images, and a [retroproxy](https://github.com/humbertocsjr/retroproxy) service for the slower machines :)

Original iMac G3 (the very first) running Mac OS X 10.1 and Netscape 7.01. The magic comes from this program : https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice

Browservice may be suitable if you have to use IE6 and you're OK using a proxy system.

"browservice" will render web pages server-side and then deliver them to your browser as an image with simple javascript.

It works in virtually all "old" browsers and can be very useful for older computers.

https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice

TL;DR: Read the entirety of Readme.md (it's at the bottom of https://github.com/ttalvitie/browservice). If you still have specific questions, i'll try to help.

Check out browservice; either run it on your host, or in another VM.

A 4th gen i7, the VM gets 2.3 GB, but I've done similarly stupid stuff on an AMD Athlon 64 (sluggish but usable, 720p YT dropping frames but watchable). Browservice running in a VM to serve XP's IE8 is another fun Goldbergian trick.

supports WebGL over SSH/MoSH

https://www.brow.sh/docs/introduction/ :

> The terminal client updates and renders in realtime so that, for instance, you can watch videos. It uses the UTF-8 half-block trick () to get 2 colours from every character cell, thus simulating basic graphics.

https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl :

> Carbonyl originally started as html2svg and is now the runtime behind it.

Always wondered how brew.sh added the brew sprite there; that's real nice.

TIL that e.g. Kitty term can basically framebuffer modified Chrome?

https://github.com/chase/awrit :

> Yep, actual Chromium being rendered in your favorite terminal that supports the Kitty terminal graphics protocol.

FWIW Cloudflare has clientless Remote Browser Isolation that also splits the browser at the rendering engine.

A TUI Manim renderer would be neat. Re: Teaching math with Manim and interactive 3d: https://github.com/bernhard-42/jupyter-cadquery/issues/99

What would you add to make it easier to teach with this entirely CPU + software rendering codebase?

What prompts for learning would you suggest?

- Pixar in a Box, Wikipedia history of CG industry: https://westurner.github.io/hnlog/#comment-36265807

- "Rotate a wireframe cube or the camera perspective with just 2d pixels to paint to; And then rotate the cube about a point other than the origin, and then move the camera while the cube is rotating"

- OTOH, ManimML, Yellowbrick, and the ThreeJS Wave/Particle simulator might be neat with a slow terminal framebuffer too

or Carbonyl

have you tried carbonyl? https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl

Maybe Carbonyl? (https://github.com/fathyb/carbonyl) It's a chromium browser for the terminal. You could use it as a backend.

I use EWW as a browser in emacs but sometimes I need a browser that is more GUI oriented. I stumbled on two such browsers that can be used in a terminal: Carbonyl and Browsh