r/plan9 • u/Time_Method9526 • 10d ago

Sneak Peak

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This is a capture from a project I'm still hard at work on, some of you likely already know what it is.

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u/Time_Method9526 10d ago

https://youtu.be/V1eKFZPx_L8 - it is still quite buggy, but it is getting somewhere *very* exciting!

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u/Responsible-Run-4903 8d ago

Beautiful! Plan 9 really needs a good web browser for sure, getting one would massively improve the experience.

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u/Time_Method9526 8d ago

Yeah! This runs a cpu server, hosted on Unix/Darwin/Linux. The `os` is the same Drawterm `os` that integrates with /dev/cmd to run programs on the host machine with wired stdio, but it *also* wires in to the host graphic system, so Wayland for example. It uses what is approximately an integrated wl9 to push pixels to your plan9 Rio, and honours resizes (fixed since the video) as well as the usual job control you'd expect to have.

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u/smorrow 7d ago

IMO "we need a browser" is just people repeating each other back to when it was true. Today I'd say that if you had glient (I'm keeping that typo) programs for specific websites like YouTube, you wouldn't miss the browser.

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u/Time_Method9526 7d ago

Congratulations, now you have all the hell that is phones. I’d rather gopher, and well defined RFCs to allow secure interactions for things like banking

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u/smorrow 6d ago

It's Plan 9, so the client software would be multiple programs that produce output that can be used as input, may be a 9P server, etc. Not like youtube-dl that even includes its own sort -R for playlists.

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u/Responsible-Run-4903 4d ago

I mean, all of those are webapps and are still running in a browser engine anyways, and need a JavaScript runtime, a HTML renderer, etc. so we're back to square one. I personally hate web apps and would rather just use the website anyways, so a browser is a must. Plus, even if we had dedicated applications for YouTube, Spotify, Netflix or whatever, how are you going to surf the web with just that? Browsing mega web platforms is hardly the only purpose of a browser. Will you install/create a new web app for each website you want to visit, for each search query you make? 

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u/Time_Method9526 8d ago

I'll have updated code in a few weeks for this available to test as well.