--- title: chawan: TUI Web Browser | daily.dev description: Chawan is a text-mode web browser designed for use in terminals, featuring multi-processing, incremental document loading, HTML5 support, and customizable... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/chawan-tui-web-browser-2khctv2gt twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: chawan: TUI Web Browser | daily.dev og:description: Chawan is a text-mode web browser designed for use in terminals, featuring multi-processing, incremental document loading, HTML5 support, and customizable... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/chawan-tui-web-browser-2khctv2gt og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/2kHcTV2Gt.png og:image:alt: chawan: TUI Web Browser og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # chawan: TUI Web Browser **[Lobsters](https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters)** · 4 min read · 38 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Chawan is a text-mode web browser designed for use in terminals, featuring multi-processing, incremental document loading, HTML5 support, and customizable keybindings. It supports multiple protocols, basic JavaScript, and has extensive security measures. It requires a POSIX-compliant OS and several dependencies to compile. Chawan is inspired by w3m but offers improvements and additional features while prioritizing simplicity and security. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@louisp0** · 0 upvotes > I like this style ! > There is also Lynx and brow.sh which is very advanced. > > P.S: It's written in Zig and *this* is cool ✨ --- Tags: [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#css](https://daily.dev/tags/css) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/chawan-tui-web-browser-2khctv2gt) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"chawan: TUI Web Browser","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/chawan-tui-web-browser-2khctv2gt","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/chawan-tui-web-browser-2khctv2gt"},"datePublished":"2024-11-18T17:52:42.652Z","dateModified":"2024-12-12T07:08:43.983Z","description":"Chawan is a text-mode web browser designed for use in terminals, featuring multi-processing, incremental document loading, HTML5 support, and customizable...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/ce19e9a25f6fde26fbbb54a350da76b8?_a=AQAEuj9","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/ce19e9a25f6fde26fbbb54a350da76b8?_a=AQAEuj9","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Lobsters","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Lobsters","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--tl8v_Fku--/f_auto,t_logo/v1698841318/logos/lobste.jpg","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters"},"commentCount":1,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/chawan-tui-web-browser-2khctv2gt","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":38},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}],"keywords":"webdev,open-source,css","timeRequired":"PT4M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Lobsters","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/lobsters"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"chawan: TUI Web Browser"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/chawan-tui-web-browser-2khctv2gt","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"I like this style !\nThere is also Lynx and brow.sh which is very advanced.\nP.S: It’s written in Zig and this is cool ✨","datePublished":"2024-12-16T21:00:03.174Z","dateModified":"2024-12-16T21:02:30.854Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/2kHcTV2Gt#c-1o7vtpg9n","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"LouisP0","url":"https://daily.dev/louisp0","image":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/128827017?v=4"}}]} ```