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  NCurses and HTML - is this possible?!? Szyk Cech <szykcech@spoko.pl> - 2019-09-05 22:05 +0200
    Re: NCurses and HTML - is this possible?!? Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-09-05 21:29 +0100
      Re: NCurses and HTML - is this possible?!? dickey@invisible-island.net - 2019-09-05 15:27 -0700
    Re: NCurses and HTML - is this possible?!? Sam <sam@email-scan.com> - 2019-09-06 06:44 -0400
      Re: NCurses and HTML - is this possible?!? Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-09-06 05:15 -0700

#68237 — NCurses and HTML - is this possible?!?

Hello!

I search few minutes Internet without success.

My question is:
Is this any reasonable solution which allow to render HTML in NCurses 
apps?!?
I want to write app with commandline and Qt or NCurses interface.
It will be nice if I can display some basic tags in Qt and NCurses 
without conversions...

Thanks in advance. Best regards.
Szyk Cech

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#68240

Szyk Cech <szykcech@spoko.pl> writes:

> I search few minutes Internet without success.
>
> My question is:
> Is this any reasonable solution which allow to render HTML in NCurses
> apps?!?

There are console-only browsers like w3m, links and lynx so the end
result is possible.  I don't know if any of these actually use NCurses,
but if any do, there may be a separable rendering library out there.

-- 
Ben.

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#68244

On Thursday, September 5, 2019 at 4:29:35 PM UTC-4, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> Szyk Cech writes:
> 
> > I search few minutes Internet without success.
> >
> > My question is:
> > Is this any reasonable solution which allow to render HTML in NCurses
> > apps?!?
> 
> There are console-only browsers like w3m, links and lynx so the end
> result is possible.  I don't know if any of these actually use NCurses,
> but if any do, there may be a separable rendering library out there.

w3m uses termcap (a low-level interface); links (and those derived from it such as links2, elinks) are hard-coded, lynx uses curses (ncurses for instance).

For a "separable rendering library" useful with a text-browser: good luck finding that.

Rendering html is actually irrelevant to both C++ and ncurses...

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Szyk Cech writes:

> Hello!
>
> I search few minutes Internet without success.
>
> My question is:
> Is this any reasonable solution which allow to render HTML in NCurses apps?!?

Sure: simply write a little bit of C++ code to parse HTML, and show the  
parsed text using ncurses. It's not complicated. HTML parsing is not that  
hard.

> I want to write app with commandline and Qt or NCurses interface.
> It will be nice if I can display some basic tags in Qt and NCurses without  
> conversions...

I don't know what "conversions" means. Parsing and formatting basic HTML is  
not rocket science. Cone, a terminal mail reader, is capable of displaying  
HTML-formatted E-mail, and it didn't take an eternity to write a basic HTML  
parser for it; even translating some basic HTML tags into terminal color and  
highlight attributes. No CSS or tables, but basic HTML content is quite  
readable.

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#68258

On Friday, September 6, 2019 at 7:44:39 AM UTC-3, Sam wrote:
> Szyk Cech writes:
> 
> > Hello!
> >
> > I search few minutes Internet without success.
> >
> > My question is:
> > Is this any reasonable solution which allow to render HTML in NCurses apps?!?
> 
> Sure: simply write a little bit of C++ code to parse HTML, and show the  
> parsed text using ncurses. It's not complicated. HTML parsing is not that  
> hard.
> 
> > I want to write app with commandline and Qt or NCurses interface.
> > It will be nice if I can display some basic tags in Qt and NCurses without  
> > conversions...
> 
> I don't know what "conversions" means. Parsing and formatting basic HTML is  
> not rocket science. Cone, a terminal mail reader, is capable of displaying  
> HTML-formatted E-mail, and it didn't take an eternity to write a basic HTML  
> parser for it; even translating some basic HTML tags into terminal color and  
> highlight attributes. No CSS or tables, but basic HTML content is quite  
> readable.

If someone wants to create a project for that, let me know, I am in.

In my view HTML is the current standard of everything related with UI. 
Everything else is a wast of time.

And of course we don't need all features but a subset.

I would like to use this to create interfaces for servers.
For instance a small utility to edit server config files.

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