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I have wondered many times.

Of course I can always use a browser but it's overkill.

The same goes for yad or zenity, they pull in webkit which is a full-fledged browser engine, and at least yad does not have an offline mode.

I just want to look at some local HTML (incl. images) & CSS styling.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Arguing about which browser does not make much sense to me because ultimately to render HTML with CSS in the way that the designer expected is the whole reason you need CSS.

ePub is interesting, but the functionality supported in the HTML is limited, as is CSS support.

You make an interesting point about JavaScript, but in my experience, the use of it is increasing, not decreasing.

I never said that Firefox, Chrome or Safari was required, there are plenty of light(er) weight browsers around, there's even a Wikipedia page about it:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_lightweight_web_browsers

My point stands, use a browser.