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The BB Browser (Working Title)

Software for browsing documents online, focused on readability.

Would support (a subset of) HTML, Gemini, Gopher, Markdown, PDF, Plaintext, and maybe others?

Inspirations, things to look at are:

HTML Subset

Support:

  • h*
  • ol, li, dl
  • abbr
  • main, section, article, aside, nav…
  • audio and video
  • base
  • a and target
  • q and blockquote
  • pre and code
  • table stuff
  • dfn
  • em, strong
  • figure
  • cite
  • del / ins
  • kbd
  • mark
  • meter (now there's a new one to me!)
  • samp
  • details / summary
  • time

Ignore:

  • css?
  • stuff like divs and spans
  • js, canvas
  • form stuff?
  • i, b (but maybe need to for olds sake?)
  • iframe
  • image maps
  • slot

Features

  • Show document outline, built from heading hierarchy
  • Show documents' metadata: author, title, keywords, description, last edit date
  • Bookmarks, history
  • View source, download
bbbrowser.txt · Last modified: 2022/10/11 15:37 by rjt