# 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
  - **Bookmark System** - Ctrl+D to add/remove, F2 to toggle panel, JSON persistence
  - **History System** - Auto-record visits, F3 to toggle panel, updates on revisit, JSON persistence
  - **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

### 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 2: Advanced Features (Medium Priority)
1. **Improve Rendering**
   - Better word wrapping
   - Table rendering
   - Code block formatting
   - Better list indentation

2. **Add Form Support**
   - Input field rendering
   - Button rendering
   - Form submission

3. **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
✅ Ctrl+D to add/remove bookmark - WORKS
✅ F2 to toggle bookmark panel - WORKS
✅ F3 to toggle history panel - WORKS
✅ Auto-record page visits in history - 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.