On Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:23:32 +0200
Rodrigo Arias <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Executing a user script is fine, but I also want to be able to
> >> rewrite the page and bring it back to Dillo for display, which
> >> requires more cooperation.
> >
> >I'm curious what the use-case for this is. Sounds interesting.
>
> For example, you could write a filter program that parses HTML and
> rewrites the links to JS hungry websites to alternative ones, in the
> same way libredirect[1] works.
>
> [1]: https://libredirect.github.io/
>
> This also allows patching the HTML of sites so you can fix them to
> work better (or at all) in Dillo. This is also done by Firefox from
> the webcompat[2] project in what they call "interventions", as
> sometimes page authors don't fix them or take a long time, so they
> patch it from the browser directly. You can open about:compat to see
> the long list of patches, here[3] is one for YouTube.
This would be very impressive, a real step forward for Dillo in my
opinion. Do you think this is something that would be relatively
straight-forward to implement, or is it more of a long-term goal with
lots of work required to get there? Either way, sounds like there are
exciting times ahead for Dillo!
Thanks!
Alex
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