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tombh on July 10, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Browsh – A modern, text-based browser

Ha, that's a very long story. The gist though is that some custom CSS forces a given webpage into a strict, monospaced, mono-sized grid. Then JS queries DOM text nodes for their contents and precise positions. Then using the standard rules of text flow the exact position of every character can be fairly reliably derived.

enriquto on July 10, 2018 [–]

that's beautiful, where can we find this cool CSS file?

detaro on July 10, 2018 | [–]

from a quick peek at the GH repo, https://github.com/browsh-org/browsh/blob/master/webext/asse... and the JS in the surrounding extension code?

enriquto on July 10, 2018 | | [–]

thanks! I couldn't find it

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