Render boxes as ASCII characters

[fathonix]

First of all, thank you for your work! So I tried code-server and and I can say it's usable, but this opens new possibility for using VSCode without GUI at all.

Now I think it would be better if Explorer, Terminal, menu and text box edges are rendered as pipe characters for less wasted space. But this probably means creating another renderer (and might break other sites), so you can put this on low priority among others. Also it would be great having right-click, scrolling and web keybinds support, hideable address bar and navigation keybinds. Thanks.

[fred913]

what the fuck is that............ could u pls show the color theme you're using? Maybe some optimization to the theme itself, rather than the browser, would be better. Maybe someone can create an optimized theme for this ASCII browser.

[fathonix]

It's the built-in "Dark High Contrast" theme. Yeah I think so, Carbonyl is already good at rendering CSS so we just need an optimized theme.

[piranna]

But this probably means creating another renderer (and might break other sites)

Not really, it would be mostly similar to how image rendering is being done, detect the pixels and match with the most-alike glyph, and later adjust to layout similar to how text rendering is being done.

Definitely I would like to see this implemented :-)