any experience with browsh

[chrys at linux-a11y.org]

Howdy Tom,

> Tried the brow.sh demo again, got in, well sort of, screen mostly garbage
yea its using a lot of accii graphic and background colors to present  
stuff. so its not very useful to blind people.

> Appears not ready for prime time or even beta time.
it works pretty well for sighted users like me but is unusable for  
blind caused by all the ascii garbage like you already found.

maybe a more clear mode could be implemented for it. you should open  
an github requrest.

cheers chrys
Zitat von Tom Fowle <wa6ivgtf at fastmail.fm>:

> Tried the brow.sh demo again, got in, well sort of, screen mostly garbage
> was able to bring up the URL bar with ctrl-l and tried to erase the
> demo's url and enter
> duckduckgo.com
> just for something. It did say loading but nothing more except garbage.
> When I did ctrl-q to quit
> my command line prompt was weird, possibly a different video attribute? had
> to reboot
> to fix that.
>
> Appears not ready for prime time or even beta time.
> Thanks all
> Tom Fowle
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 06:49:26PM +0100, chrys wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> didnt work it for you? i just tried, works like a charm from TTY4 here.
>>
>> ctrl + t opens a tab
>> ctrl + w did close it again.
>> without any X or DE.
>>
>> just
>> ssh brow.sh
>>
>> cheers chrys
>> Am 06.02.19 um 17:17 schrieb Jude DaShiell:
>> >In order for that ssh demo to have worked at all, it had to be launched
>> >in a graphical user interface in a terminal.
>> >
>> >On Wed, 6 Feb 2019, Chrys wrote:
>> >
>> >>Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2019 02:50:40
>> >>From: Chrys <chrys at linux-a11y.org>
>> >>Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>> >>     <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
>> >>To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.  
>> <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
>> >>Subject: Re: any experience with browsh
>> >>
>> >>Howdy,
>> >>
>> >>>>Yes, it doesn't work.  The author's concept of command line is limited
>> >>>>to a terminal running inside of gnome or mate
>> >>I m not very experienced (i also did not try yet) with browsh,  
>> but i would not trust this information since the author provides a  
>> demo using ssh on:
>> >>https://www.brow.sh/
>> >>This would not work too then.
>> >>
>> >>Right is you need firefox installed since browsh runs firefox in  
>> headless mode for rendering and grabs the page from its inspector.
>> >>Running firefox headless might depend on the OS if a X is needed  
>> ad dependency or not.
>> >>
>> >>Cheers chrys
>> >>>Am 06.02.2019 um 05:28 schrieb Tom Fowle <wa6ivgtf at fastmail.fm>:
>> >>>
>> >>>Jude,
>> >>>It does sound rather too good to be true
>> >>>tried there ssh demo which caused a panic on the remote server.
>> >>>not a good sign.
>> >>>thanks
>> >>>Tom Fowle
>> >>>
>> >>>>On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 11:15:51PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
>> >>>>Yes, it doesn't work.  The author's concept of command line is limited
>> >>>>to a terminal running inside of gnome or mate and for that reason you'll
>> >>>>find keyboard commands down on the real console level have no effect in
>> >>>>browsh.  This was verified by a developer who develops the slint
>> >>>>operating system.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>>On Tue, 5 Feb 2019, Tom Fowle wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2019 22:54:35
>> >>>>>From: Tom Fowle <wa6ivgtf at fastmail.fm>
>> >>>>>Reply-To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
>> >>>>>    <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
>> >>>>>To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.  
>> <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
>> >>>>>Subject: any experience with browsh
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>Just ran into this command line front end for firefox, Anybody have
>> >>>>>experience with it
>> >>>>>would use it not remotely but from the console on the computer  
>> where it is
>> >>>>>installed?
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>Thanks
>> >>>>>Tom Fowle
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