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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:

  * [[firefox]]'s [[firefox#reader view]]
    * IE what elements it is using and how it deals with problems
    * I don't necessarily want to put to much effort into supporting badly made websites though, tbh
  * The [[Kristall]] 'small-Internet' browser [[github>MasterQ32/kristall]]
    * I like the layout with document outline on the left, document in the middle, and history and bookmarks on the right ([[https://camo.githubusercontent.com/370d961a71542f16258cc863ac4f3cc869f73886/68747470733a2f2f6d7133322e64652f7075626c69632f613530656633323766343135306438373033393362313938396335623431646234393562353666372e706e67|see this image with a massive filename]]).
    * tbh it's almost perfect
  * The [[dat]]-based scientific papers reader [[github>sciencefair-land/sciencefair]]
    * The way it extracts and displays //figures// is interesting.

===== 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|metadata]]: author, title, keywords, description, last edit date
  * Bookmarks, history
  * View source, download
  * ...

{{tag>software Internet project web-browser}}