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In what is a likely naive idea here, it would be exciting to build a bowser rom for #uxn (or my own uxn-inspired nuxm) that allows for this limited mode, so sites (local or otherwise) could be loaded and rendered within the system, making websites possible on small systems.

Like 10 Oct 2023 at 19:49 | Open on xoxo.zone

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⛧ esoterik ⛧

@sara i had the idea to build a local-only #uxn gemini browser to start with. i think that would be pretty achievable, and could eventually use some kind of networking extension to uxn

10 Oct 2023 at 19:51 | Open on merveilles.town

Devine Lu Linvega

@d6 @sara I have a few ideas on this topic, I think beyond a "web" browser, it might be fun to have a file format designed to embed images, fonts and sounds in a way that is not too difficult to write a reader for on small systems like Uxn.

It would make it possible for anyone to write their own viewer, on various systems. A server and browser for this file-format would be the next step.

10 Oct 2023 at 19:55 | Open on merveilles.town

Devine Lu Linvega

@d6 @sara I'd love to see an image or sound format for these files designed with the philosophy of something like gopher and gemini.

A lower bar than png and jpg could inspire people to write their own parsers in minimal systems.

10 Oct 2023 at 19:59 | Open on merveilles.town

Morgan Arnold

@neauoire @d6 @sara for an image format i think that qoi is a very strong candidate. it doesn't create prohibitively large files like farbfeld does, but the reference implementation in C is just 300 sloc

10 Oct 2023 at 22:10 | Open on mathstodon.xyz

sara

Extrapolated from here, one could load a local copy of a website on a game boy cart.

10 Oct 2023 at 19:53 | Open on xoxo.zone

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