Karatasi | Command Line Web Browser Used AI

Some of this devlog is from like a month ago. What I've done most recently is start unifying handlers for pages bc it seems kinda pointless to have very similar classes do almost the exact same thing. Also moved over to a config system I designed for my Minecraft plugins, its more clean.

Did some documentation, minor changes to code. Ready to ship.

The improved renderer still needs a lot of work, but I'm going to save that for next ship. Did some work, renamed the browser to Karatasi (meaning paper in Swahili), and preparing to ship.

Did some basic refactoring, including setting the new SimpleRenderer background to white instead of gray. Eventually I'll try to set background colors based off page CSS.

This doesn't look pretty but it's some progress. I added (working for the most part) hyperlinks. I did some more work with scrolling-now you cant scroll down forever, and you cant scroll over the top of the page. I need to work on making all Components render at their fullsize no matter the window size, in the screenshot they're still not even in their full size.

Spent a lot of time working on a second way of rendering things, which would make the browser much more usable. Wrote some renderers for certain elements. Panels, which is what all page content is displayed arent scrollable normally, so thats been a problem. Ive worked on making a scrollable version, and Ive got something going so far. Its not perfect, but its a start.

Got the config editor working fully, file saving, loading & all. Had to fix some issues with the Configuration class.

Finished most config implementation, still need to write the editor for it though. Moved logic for the back and forward buttons in the toolbar to a separate class to declutter the Screen class, probably going to move more things out of the Screen class too.

Started work on making a configuration, which will be editable in the browser. Worked on writing classes for it, and started on the file itself.

Wrote some more Handlers for files stored in the JAR. Not much to see really.

Implemented different Handlers for filetypes over the web, and added HTML support for files that are stored on the jar. Made the home page be one thats on the jar locally, so it can still load w/o internet

Did some refactoring with pages, added html support for jar files, working on moving over to a new system so less sites are blocked from loading by cloudflare

Among other things, reworked loading documents and added a way to load files that are stored in the jar, with jar:/ just like https://. Planning on adding file:/ to browse local files next. Also started reworking error page loading, so I wrote a new Exception that all Destinations will throw if they can't be loaded.

Worked on various things, including a way to size images based off window size.

Messed around with the ASCII image library, figured out sizing, might look at adding small images to webpages. For now, if a user enters an address to a image file the ASCII image converter will be used.

Tried adding image rendering w/ an ASCII image generator lib I found on GitHub, but the images were too large. Might make it so that the generator is used if you enter a link to an actual image. Added true element nesting w/ recursion, and I worked on changing some specific elements so it works better w/ the nesting & boxing.

Moved page loading to a different thread so the whole application doesnt hang if a website is slow or not responding, added a Loading Page with a progress bar.

Added a specific page for 404 errors, got an ASCII text generator library for heading tags

Various small changes, added full boxing around text elements like , , etc. Need to work on nesting now

Fixed image tags, added link rendering, other work, attempted to add a progress bar but the page loads too fast

Did some additional formatting work, got to implement formatting for more tag types, and figure out nesting

Worked on implementing the PrimitiveTextBoxRenderer - a solely text based renderer, so I can better understand jsoup. Formatting doesnt really work right now. Also wrote a html page on my website to act as the landing page when you launch the application

Worked on an error message page, updated code for the main browser screen

Worked on a main browser page, wrote a tool bar and just setup the web page so it would print out the html code, no processing

Did some work with message dialogs

Worked w/ Maven so I can compile & test outside of my IDE, changed a few things for the url entry UI, and wrote a method to normalize urls so more urls wont throw exceptions

Worked on taking the input from the text input page and processing it, for now just printing it out.

Wrote initial code, getting to understand the Laterna library