I have wondered many times.
Of course I can always use a browser but it’s overkill.
The same goes for yad or zenity, they pull in webkit which is a full-fledged browser engine, and at least yad does not have an offline mode.
I just want to look at some local HTML (incl. images) & CSS styling.
Offpunk is cool and offline-ish. It’s a tui-browser.
These days, with the proliferation if SPAs and descendants of Ajax, much of the web is inaccessible unless you also execute JavaScript.
If you have a browser already installed installing another one is an overkill.
Those are great suggestions; I don’t use them only because neither is keyboard oriented, so I tend to vacillate between Luakit, Surf, vimb, and Nyxt (although the last still has serious hard-hanging issues and an obscene configuration).
On this topic, I’d be interested in a terminal browser that tries harder on the layout front. w3m, links, links2, elinks - they all work, but none focus on layout and rendering even as much as terminal Markdown renderers such as glow and hike.
+1 for Dillo. Yes, it’s limited, it’s largely abandoned for the past 10 years and you won’t run web apps on it. But it is indeed blazingly fast and very low on resources, like OP requested. I didn’t know NetSurt, thanks for that!
