All of this shows how powerful a single, integrated environment whose users are free to extend it is. It’s a shame how much effort has been built on closed, non-extensible systems.
Another fun feature that for some baffling reason hasn't made it to mainstream browsers yet is the ability to follow <meta rel="next"> and prev links. They're bound to n and p in eww.
I think original Opera (20-ish years ago) supported this? But I might misremember it. I was very into webcomics back then. Most of them had these meta tags and I did use this feature, so it had to be somehow supported by whatever browser I was using.
I definitely remember a "hold right mouse button, click left button, release right button" gesture was an imaginary left-pointing arrow (and the opposite one pointing right) but I can't remember whether they did prev/next links, or back/forward navigation.
Opera had keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures for absolutely everything, and my cat did his best to teach me them by jumping on my keyboard, and then I had to figure out how did he turn the entire browser display sideways and how do I make it back upright
I first encountered the feature in Conkeror: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conkeror (RIP) which was very heavily emacs-inspired. Best browser I've ever used by a huge margin.
Ooh, this names rings a bell too! I've already been using Emacs then, and I was definitaly nerdy enough to use a brower like that. (I was also using Opera at some point these years, I remember it fondly too).
The neat thing is that many of these benefits come for free by virtue of being an Emacs program. An Emacs-based chat, Mastodon or Gemini/Gopher client shares most of these a same features.
rau | a day ago
All of this shows how powerful a single, integrated environment whose users are free to extend it is. It’s a shame how much effort has been built on closed, non-extensible systems.
technomancy | 12 hours ago
Another fun feature that for some baffling reason hasn't made it to mainstream browsers yet is the ability to follow
<meta rel="next">and prev links. They're bound tonandpin eww.Psentee | 9 hours ago
I think original Opera (20-ish years ago) supported this? But I might misremember it. I was very into webcomics back then. Most of them had these meta tags and I did use this feature, so it had to be somehow supported by whatever browser I was using.
I definitely remember a "hold right mouse button, click left button, release right button" gesture was an imaginary left-pointing arrow (and the opposite one pointing right) but I can't remember whether they did prev/next links, or back/forward navigation.
Opera had keyboard shortcuts and mouse gestures for absolutely everything, and my cat did his best to teach me them by jumping on my keyboard, and then I had to figure out how did he turn the entire browser display sideways and how do I make it back upright
technomancy | 9 hours ago
I first encountered the feature in Conkeror: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conkeror (RIP) which was very heavily emacs-inspired. Best browser I've ever used by a huge margin.
Psentee | 9 hours ago
Ooh, this names rings a bell too! I've already been using Emacs then, and I was definitaly nerdy enough to use a brower like that. (I was also using Opera at some point these years, I remember it fondly too).
slondr | 12 hours ago
Neat! I didn't know of this trick.
donio | 23 hours ago
The neat thing is that many of these benefits come for free by virtue of being an Emacs program. An Emacs-based chat, Mastodon or Gemini/Gopher client shares most of these a same features.
[OP] confusedalex | a day ago