[krautburglar]

This is barbarianism. This is Babel. Too many dunces trying to turn VT220 into Google Chrome. The long-term effect: the ruination of terminals. You can already see it. Try to run newer terminal apps on classic hardware terminals. Most of the time, you just get garbage, since nobody seems to bother to even check termcap anymore. They just directly shit out whatever bleeding-edge escapes that vte/iterm2/ghostty or other barbarianisms support as of the last five minutes.

If you want something half-way between VT220 and Google Chrome, please be original and make something new, rather than wiping your butt on a standard that is still somewhat functioning.

[piekvorst]

Isn't VT220 meant to be extensible? Just the hardware stopped at a certain point.

[krautburglar]

That's the point. The hardware stopped at a certain point, which has gifted us with a de-facto standard. I would prefer if our "woo look at me" attention-whore graffiti artists would actually create something positive and original instead of riding someone else's gift into oblivion for attention.