Well-written article!

I wish there was some kind of standard to tell CLI apps what features to expect from the system pager, so they can act accordingly …

Right now, apps can talk to the terminal to check for feature support, but all of that falls apart when the output is piped to a pager. (Do we support inline links? ANSI colors? Sixel support??)

Shameless plug, specifically regarding Sixel support: I needed a pager with better image support than just less -r and made https://github.com/roblillack/lessi

To be pedantic, you mean a standard like IEEE 1003 aka POSIX? (https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/m...)

maybe just check TERM? although to be honest--do you even need a pager if your shell/terminal is nice enough?

I rarely pipe to a pager because kitty/fish/tmux support OSC 133 pretty well and I can press one button to go up to the previous command prompt and another button to go back. I can press a few keys to search the scrollback. It all works seamlessly across SSH sessions too if you set it up right.

    # tmux
    bind-key -T copy-mode C-Home send -X history-top
    bind-key -T copy-mode C-End  send -X history-bottom
    bind -T copy-mode C-Up send-keys -X previous-prompt
    bind -T copy-mode C-Down send-keys -X next-prompt

    # kitty
    map ctrl+up scroll_to_prompt -1
    map ctrl+down scroll_to_prompt 1
    map shift+PAGE_UP scroll_page_up
    map shift+PAGE_DOWN scroll_page_down

    # fish shell config.fish
    if test -z "$SSH_TTY"; and test -z "$TMUX"
        bind pageup "kitty @ scroll-window 1p-"
        bind pagedown "kitty @ scroll-window 1p"
    end

Yes, there is imgap: https://github.com/roblillack/imgap

You can use it to create delta images for git diff but also to interactively compare changes via git difftool.

Wow, this project (and actually the whole thread here) is awesome. Love it! Our (iPad-based) kitchen timetable[1] is nothing compared to the work (and money) Joel sank into this.

If someone wants to go the easy route towards something like this: iPad (Air 1, I think) is connected to the charger 24/7 and runs in Kiosk mode. Application is just a React website hosted on Vercel, client credentials are stored in localStorage …

[1]: https://roblillack.net/unser-stundenplan-family-timetable-vi...

It’s not PIC and not really suitable for complex diagrams, yet, but you can use Vizzlo’s Chart Vizzard to create a subset of the supported chart types (let’s say a Gantt) and then continue editing it using the chart editor: https://vizzlo.com/ai

Author posted a screenshot here: https://bsky.app/profile/zaphar.bsky.social/post/3lc67gecky2...

OpenBSD support is quite a bit further: https://roblillack.net/openbsd-arm64-on-the-thinkpad-t14s

> On both Windows and macOS, windows are clearly delimited by drop shadows.

https://www.threads.net/@roblillack/post/DBYOuivOPFV

Looks like the terminal but can't zoom in on mobile, I guess UsabilityNightmares for threads too

IIRC it's the Calculator. :(

It's the minimize/maximize/close buttons. Inactive windows draw them ever so slightly in gray compared to active windows drawing them in black. Calculator has them in black.

As for Powershell/Terminal, assuming the screenshot wasn't timed deliberately, there is no caret which implies it's not the active window.

It's shading, but the worst kind of shading.

The new windows GUI framework used for the windows on the screen seems to be worse in this regard, as normal windows get their titles greyed out which is quite obvious and is a more natural place to look at than the control buttons

Screenshot:

https://imgur.com/hoOlRDy

Happy that this will finally be a feature of FF. Still pretty useless for me, though, for these reasons:

- There's an empty tab bar shown at the top of the window.

- Currently, there's now way to enable a wider sidebar that shows tab titles, too.

> Currently, there's now way to enable a wider sidebar that shows tab titles, too.

I think this is a bug, I had the same issue but then went to "Customize Sidebar" and toggled "Sidebar settings" to "Always show" and now I see titles, regardless of which sidebar show setting I have

That did the trick, thank you!

Went through the list, all listed services are SaaS apps. :(

Granted, most of them are self-hosted (not all!), but this list needs to be called norecurringfee.com ….

Perfect use-case, IMHO! Looking forward to hear your thoughts ocne you tried it.