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You might want to consider adding support for displaying proper terminal graphics, instead of using pixelated ones (which I assume are done using unicode block drawing symbols?).

See https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/graphics-protocol.html

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I'm actually already pretty decided against this. Simply because I won't the basic engine to be as text-focused as possible, as then we have a universal source of the modern web in pure text format, that multiple other clients (terminals being only one) can make use of. And besides graphics are orders of magnitude more bandwidth heavy than text, which somewhat defeats the purpose of Browsh.

Rendering images using unicode block symbols does not make them text, it just makes them pixelated. And you can always down sample images to reduce the bandwidth cost and still get a much better rendering than you achieve currently. For example you can convert the images to indexed 256 color compressed PNG and transmit that, which would reduce bandwidth by a factor of ~4x while still giving you much better rendering.

But anyway, it was just a suggestion, it's your project, you should feel free to do what you think is best for it.

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