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Life & fun · November 11, 2022

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A silly JavaScript-free web browser in the browser

This is a browser front-end (ultra simple) for Chrome, built using puppeteer. I like it because it provides a usable single browser tab (that conveniently crashes on certificate errors (thanks to puppeteers default flags which I haven't altered here)), without using any JS scripting on the client side. There's some clever hacks to get that to work, including stylesheet media queries (to zero in on the correct viewport dimensions), and MJPEG, a crazy HTTP keep-alive way to stream JPEG frames of a video, favored by old-style CCTV/security/web cameras allegedly. I noticed it went from…

A silly JavaScript-free web browser in the browser launched on November 11, 2022 with 10 votes, #1,252 of 3,471 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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This is a browser front-end for Chrome built with Puppeteer that runs entirely without client-side JavaScript. It provides a usable single browser tab by using stylesheet media queries to match viewport dimensions and MJPEG streaming to display video frames. Designed for users curious about unconventional web browsing approaches, it demonstrates how to create a functional browser interface through server-side rendering and creative HTTP techniques rather than traditional client-side scripting.

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This is a browser front-end (ultra simple) for Chrome, built using puppeteer. I like it because it provides a usable single browser tab (that conveniently crashes on certificate errors (thanks to puppeteers default flags which I haven't altered here)), without using any JS scripting on the client side. There's some…

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