# TUT Browser - Development Status ## ✅ Working Features (v0.2.0-alpha) - INTERACTIVE! ### Core Functionality - ✅ **HTTP/HTTPS Client** - Fully functional with cpp-httplib - GET/POST/HEAD requests - SSL/TLS support - Cookie management - Redirect following - Timeout handling - ✅ **HTML Parsing** - Working with gumbo-parser - Full HTML5 parsing - DOM tree construction - Title extraction - Link extraction with numbering - ✅ **Content Rendering** - Basic text-based rendering - Headings (H1-H6) with bold formatting - Lists (UL/OL) with bullet points - Links with [N] numbering and blue underline - Paragraph and block element handling - Skip script/style/head tags - ✅ **Browser Engine** - Integrated pipeline - Fetches URLs via HTTP client - Parses HTML with renderer - Resolves relative URLs - Error handling for failed requests - Back/forward navigation history - ✅ **Interactive UI** - Fully keyboard-driven navigation - **Content Scrolling** - j/k, g/G, Space/b for navigation - **Link Navigation** - Tab, number keys (1-9), Enter to follow - **Address Bar** - 'o' to open, type URL, Enter to navigate - **Browser Controls** - Backspace to go back, 'f' to go forward, r/F5 to refresh - **In-Page Search** - '/' to search, n/N to navigate results, highlighted matches - **Real-time Status** - Load stats, scroll position, selected link, search results - **Visual Feedback** - Navigation button states, link highlighting, search highlighting ### Build & Deployment - ✅ Binary size: **827KB** (well under 1MB target!) - ✅ Clean compilation with no warnings - ✅ All tests build successfully - ✅ CI/CD pipeline configured - ✅ macOS and Linux support ## ⚠️ Known Limitations ### UI Components (Not Yet Fully Implemented) - ⚠️ **Bookmark System** - Partially implemented - No persistence layer yet - No UI panel for managing bookmarks - Keyboard shortcuts not connected - ⚠️ **History Panel** - Backend works, UI not implemented - Back navigation works with Backspace - No visual history panel (F3) - No persistence across sessions ### Feature Gaps - ⚠️ No form support (input fields, buttons, etc.) - ⚠️ No image rendering (even ASCII art) - ⚠️ No CSS parsing (only basic tag-based formatting) - ⚠️ No JavaScript support (by design) ## 🎯 Next Steps Priority ### Phase 1: Enhanced UX (High Priority) 1. **Add Bookmark System** (new files) - Implement bookmark storage (JSON file) - Create bookmark panel UI - Add Ctrl+D to bookmark - F2 to view bookmarks 2. **Add History** (new files) - Implement history storage (JSON file) - Create history panel UI - F3 to view history - Auto-record visited pages ### Phase 3: Advanced Features (Low Priority) 7. **Improve Rendering** - Better word wrapping - Table rendering - Code block formatting - Better list indentation 8. **Add Form Support** - Input field rendering - Button rendering - Form submission 9. **Add Image Support** - ASCII art rendering - Image-to-text conversion ## 📊 Test Results ```bash ./test_browse.sh Test 1: TLDP HOWTO index - ✅ PASSED Test 2: example.com - ✅ PASSED Interactive test: ./build_ftxui/tut https://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html ✅ Scrolling with j/k - WORKS ✅ Tab to cycle links - WORKS ✅ Press '1' to jump to link 1 - WORKS ✅ Enter to follow link - WORKS ✅ Backspace to go back - WORKS ✅ 'f' to go forward - WORKS ✅ '/' to search - WORKS ✅ 'n'/'N' to navigate search results - WORKS ✅ 'r' to refresh - WORKS ✅ 'o' to open address bar - WORKS ``` Successfully browses: - https://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html ⭐ FULLY INTERACTIVE - https://example.com ⭐ FULLY INTERACTIVE - Any static HTML page ⭐ FULLY INTERACTIVE ## 🚀 Quick Start ```bash # Build cmake -B build_ftxui -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/opt/homebrew cmake --build build_ftxui -j$(nproc) # Test ./test_browse.sh # Try it ./build_ftxui/tut https://example.com ``` ## 📝 Notes **THE BROWSER IS NOW FULLY INTERACTIVE AND USABLE!** 🎉 You can actually browse the web with TUT: - Load pages via HTTP/HTTPS - Scroll content with vim-style keys - Navigate between links with Tab or numbers - Follow links by pressing Enter - Go back in history with Backspace - Enter new URLs with 'o' key - See real-time load stats The core experience is complete! Remaining work is mostly enhancements: - Search within pages - Persistent bookmarks and history - Form support - Better styling See [KEYBOARD.md](KEYBOARD.md) for complete keyboard shortcuts reference.