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I accidentaly stumbled upon this newish browser (even has IPFS support) called LibreWeb Any thoughts ?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It not only supports IPFS, it is "built on top of" it, according to the website.

This makes me wonder if it's usable for regular web browsing or only IPFS sites. The latter would sort of make it a splinternet browser, and way less interesting.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It's definitely the latter. The sites it renders are just markdown files stored on the IPFS network. I don't think it can render HTML let alone a modern web app on the internet

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I do love markdown files myself, so a browser-side parser is very interesting. Definitely skips some Jekyll/Hugo exports ๐Ÿ™‚

Limiting that feature to IPFS is sort of one sided for my taste, though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

For now it's a WIP project by one of the creators of Mbin