HTML terminal mode #1003

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opened 2026-01-30 22:13:47 +00:00 by claunia · 0 comments
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Originally created by @wm2015email on GitHub (May 12, 2019).

I was watching your build 2019 presentation..

I'll tell you the feature i've always wanted for terminal windows: ** HTML terminal mode**... why not make a "VT" terminal code that can switch into HTML mode so that a program can directly dump HTML to the terminal window? HTML is much better suited at advanced formatting than anything VT-terminal codes can do... then, when the program is finished, the VT code to switch back to non html mode is issued. Like you switch to "HTML terminal mode", which causes a chromium browser window to be embedded into the terminal window after the terminal prompt, and all the HTML issued from your command to appear there... like javascript graphics... maybe you need to make a subset of HTML that's compatable with terminal mode? like obviously no need for HTML header tags and all the formalities of HTML... just everything inside of the body tags to render in the terminal embedded chromium window with x,y set to be the starting point after the prompt.

Originally created by @wm2015email on GitHub (May 12, 2019). I was watching your build 2019 presentation.. I'll tell you the feature i've always wanted for terminal windows: ** HTML terminal mode**... why not make a "VT" terminal code that can switch into HTML mode so that a program can directly dump HTML to the terminal window? HTML is much better suited at advanced formatting than anything VT-terminal codes can do... then, when the program is finished, the VT code to switch back to non html mode is issued. Like you switch to "HTML terminal mode", which causes a chromium browser window to be embedded into the terminal window after the terminal prompt, and all the HTML issued from your command to appear there... like javascript graphics... maybe you need to make a subset of HTML that's compatable with terminal mode? like obviously no need for HTML header tags and all the formalities of HTML... just everything inside of the body tags to render in the terminal embedded chromium window with x,y set to be the starting point after the prompt.
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