Chawan is a text-mode web browser. It displays websites in your terminal and allows you to navigate on them. It can be used as a terminal pager, or as a web/(S)FTP/gopher/gemini/file browser.
It understands HTML and CSS, and when enabled by the user, can also execute JavaScript and display images (on terminals supporting Sixel or the Kitty image protocol).
Chawan can also be used to as a general text-based document viewer , or as a hyperlinked man page viewer.
This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain.
Key Features
- Multi-processing, incremental loading of documents.
- Multi-charset, double-width aware text display.
- HTML5 support, forms, cookies.
- CSS-based layout engine: supports flow layout, table layout, flexbox layout.
- User-programmable keybindings (defaults are vi(m)-like).
- Basic JavaScript support in documents (disabled by default for security reasons).
- Inline image support with sixel/kitty protocols.
- Supports several protocols: HTTP(S), FTP, Gopher, Gemini, Finger, etc.
- User-defined protocols and file formats.
- Markdown viewer, man page viewer.
- Mouse support.
- Syscall filter based sandboxing on FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Linux (through capsicum, pledge and seccomp-bpf).
- Bookmarks.
Website: sr.ht/~bptato/chawan
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License: Public domain
Chawan is written in Nim. Learn Nim with our recommended free tutorials.
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