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by KirinDave 3636 days ago
> Just what I've always wanted from a terminal - things I can only do with a GUI and mouse. /sarcasm

Just what this conversation needs - someone who fundamentally doesn't get that web browsers and their derivatives have more affordances for accessibility than a native terminal interface ever did.

> This product seems to fundamentally misunderstand people that use terminals.

> Either way, why is there a group of people that seems to think we desperately need to take applications that we are already running natively, wrap them in HTML/CSS/JS, throw them inside of a webview, embed that webview into a separate Chromium instance, and string it all together using a tool and execution environment designed to take a client-side single threaded web scripting language and use it for making servers? (Mugatu: I feel like I'm taking crazy pills - does nobody see this?!?)

In part because this could offer secondary visualizations for data that is better without breaking anything at all, if people would stop making elaborate nose-pinching brow arching gestures every time the idea of a web browser came up.

Oh, and it'd be the basis for a more robust and usable SSH option. SSH is a horrible protocol and Mosh works in very few network environments. An HTTP/2 connection and decoupling of input from user response (without appealing to line mode) would be demonstrably better.

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> Just what this conversation needs - someone who fundamentally doesn't get that web browsers and their derivatives have more affordances for accessibility than a native terminal interface ever did.

I do not have sight impairment, but I'm quite certain that I could navigate a fixed number of keystrokes more reliably than I could operate a mouse. If I were listening to synthesized speech dictating on-screen output, I know that the option that makes the most sense is four taps back and one up. Finding that with a mouse would be unnecessarily complex by comparison.

I don't understand why you're perfectly happy to consider assistive technology for your terminal but completely unwilling to consider assistive technology for the browser.

The Web is an order of magnitude more tooled for usability than nearly any application you use on a day to day basis. Requiring pointer actions has nothing to do with that.