Need a tremendous easy web browser for gemini, gopher, finger, and naturally http and https? Kristall is a enjoyable little app that strips away css, JS, and graphics on web sites, leaving you with a pure textual content expertise. It does help kinds with HTML, gemini, and markdown, nonetheless, which makes it maybe extra usable than chances are you’ll initially anticipate, sort of like a beefier lynx command line browser.
Kristall is sort of a enjoyable browser for enjoying round, however it does have some legitimate makes use of too, like for testing web sites for accessibility (if a web site doesn’t work in any respect with out CSS/JS… that’s not nice), or for studying the online in ultra-low bandwidth conditions. And even in case you’re simply having a little bit of enjoyable and goofing off, it’s a enjoyable free utility you may seize from the builders web site, or by way of the tasks github web page. Whether or not or not it’s sensible to your utilization is as much as you to resolve, however not each enjoyable instrument or utility must be sensible does it?
Word that Kristall doesn’t help http/https by default, however that’s straightforward to vary.
Pull down the Kristall menu and go to Preferences, the place you may allow help for http/https, together with gemini, gopher, and finger, if these are what you’re searching for.
As soon as http is enabled, you may browse the online as standard, like visiting the all the time wonderful osxdaily.com, the place an article appears to be like like this:
And navigating the homepage appears to be like like this:
Regardless of stripping away all of the CSS and javascript, the positioning remains to be readable, usable, clickable… correctly, proper?
That is sort of like a GUI model of lynx on Mac which is only textual content based mostly and restricted to the command line, although you may use Lynx with picture help in case you’re into that kind of factor.
Will Kristall grow to be your default internet browser on the Mac? Most likely not, however you might have some enjoyable with it or discover a use-case for the app.
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