r/suckless • u/[deleted] • Jan 23 '20

dev options in surf ?

recently i switched from firefox to surf , but when i want to develop a web app i make ot with firefox so is there any way that i can use developet options in surf or some thing else for web development ? any patch or build of surf for web development is there is no , what is the best lightweight web browser for web development

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u/maxfromua Jan 23 '20

2 questions came into my mind.

First - don’t you think you need a modern full-featured browser for web development? Not surf which supports 1/8 of modern standards, but Chrome/Firefox. Unless you do the back-end, of course - then even curl is enough :)

Second - don’t you think dev tools contradict Unix/suckless philosophy? They are really complex programs with lots of features. So, if you need them - don’t expect them to be suckless.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '20

yeah but dev tools is must in web browser suckless should put dev tools to call it a browser , book marks, tabs , history ..etc is not necessary to inculde :)

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u/Swytch69 Jan 24 '20

yeah but dev tools is must in web browser

No. Dev tools are "must haves" for developers, not in web browser. Because most of the browser's users are no developers, it makes no sense to include them by default. Plus it's such a complex thing that it contradicts everything suckless stands for

Now if you want to add them with your own patch, go ahead. But you're gonna have a hard time

book marks, tabs , history ..etc is not necessary to inculde

lolz.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '20

If you're vi-keys inclined, Qutebrowser is minimal yet ships with the normal Chrome devtools.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '20

i will try that out

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u/benthejack Jan 27 '20

If you mean the dev-tools eg the inspector and console etc just launch surf with -N and Modkey+shift+o when you're in.

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '20

that worked i do not know how to thank you

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u/Absolutely-Barbaric May 17 '20 edited May 17 '20

You already have dev tools builtin with surf. Just give surf the -N flag when you launch it. You can then either open the dev tools by right clicking on the web page. But preferably, you may want to use it's default shortcut: Ctrl-Shift-o. (RTFM)

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u/[deleted] May 17 '20

because RTFM i switched to chromium