As a coding exercise for myself, I'm considering writing my own Jow Forums browser whose main goal is to make the site be text-only. Am I better off writing a standalone browser complete with its own rendering engine and whatnot, or should I make a website instead that gets a thread's page's HTML and trims the fat off of it before sending it back to the user's browser?
As a coding exercise for myself...
Mason Reed
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Wyatt Ross
just ripoff clover and make it proprietary with a $5 entry fee. Change the UI up a bit and no one will really notice if they can't see the code. Make some easy cash.
Dylan Garcia
>that pic
the linux duck is in a cartoon?
Dylan Long
that's daffy duck, you absolute retard
Elijah Harris
Not him but it's a fucking joke retard
Brandon Anderson
Jow Forums has an API, why in the world would you want to parse the page's html? Or write a standalone browser? Literally just use the API and consume it with the frontend you write
Ian Myers
excellent bait and what a bite you got
Hudson Sanders
Text only image board eh
Samuel Brown
Because api can go away or change. Html will always be there until the whole site dies.
Mason Anderson
I doubt the API is ever going to go away, and APIs have versioning for a reason. Does the slight to null chance of the API dying justify going through the hell of inefficiently parsing the fucking HTML? My ass it does.
Hudson Young
You realize that the website is just a JavaScript frontend right? It just takes json data and renders it
Ryder Powell
Have you ever even right clicked and viewed the source? Jow Forums has been based on json data for years.
Connor Kelly
for $x in /4chanthread
return $x/post/text()
why do we need an api again
Daniel Wood
learned something new today, I always thought Jow Forums was server rendered, thanks anons
Hudson Scott
Based and crackpilled
Henry Torres
what. this website is static html pages
Adam Morales
but clover already has a text only mode
Cameron Mitchell
>the linux duck
Kek
Dominic Rogers
My sides; thanks for the laugh user
Christian King
parse the rss feed
Mason Smith
Just fork qtchan and remove image support.
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