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Wterm – Terminal Emulator for the Web
26 points by m3h 6 hours ago | 5 comments
  • ahsillyme
    I thought that there was a name clash: https://web.archive.org/web/20071010015641/https://martin.an... but I can't actually remember what that that wterm was. Not the same I would imagine. (edit: what I was thinking about was https://sourceforge.net/projects/wterm/)
  • dboreham
    Unfortunately the browser still can't make the kind of network connection needed to transport a terminal session to a remote computer natively. afaik all the tunneling solutions are pretty clunky/insecure.
  • williamstein
    Wow, finally an alternative to xterm.js?
    • nacs
      Ghostty-web exists and is even API compatible with xterm.js (same engine that powers Ghostty):

      https://github.com/coder/ghostty-web/

      In fact, it looks like wterm's 12KB plugin doesnt offer full term emulation and uses ghostty to support everything else:

      https://wterm.dev/ghostty

    • williamstein
      This seems like a useful discussion of the relationship between wterm and xtermjs: https://github.com/agent-of-empires/agent-of-empires/issues/...
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