[mlang23]

As a diehard terminal user, I think this headline should interest me. However, I am assuming this is some sort of JavaScript perversion? Visiting the link with lynx gives an empty page. Can anyone explain whats going on there to a non-GUI user?

[OJFord]

Keyboard doesn't open on FF Android, so I can't use it (right now) either, but it seems to be a faux shell & TUI for searching DDG.

(I see green on black terminal aesthetic, $ prompt and a flashing cursor - banner text (in the 'shell') above explains I can (if the keyboard would open) run :help (or :send-feedback to tell them the keyboard doesn't w-- oh) which I assume would tell me how to query the search engine.)

Yeah, presumably JS if you can't load it. Though from what I can see without typing anything it could be done in CSS. (I suppose it's probably a SPA - results loaded in place without a page reload which, to be fair, would ruin the faux shell aesthetic.)

[mlang23]

Thanks for taking the time to explain what you see. This sort of confirms my initial suspicion. Weird.

[input_sh]

Maybe this will be an alternative interface that suits you: https://github.com/jarun/ddgr

There's also these JS-free interfaces: https://html.duckduckgo.com/html https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite

[retube]

yes it's just a webpage styled to look like a terminal. not sure what the big deal is

[MayeulC]

FWIW, the regular (or rather, lite) duckduckgo runs nicely in a TUI browser like elinks. THat's my search engine of choice when text-browsing.

[tentacleuno]

It's JavaScript / jQuery, so yeah it's not going to work in Lynx.