interesting idea. there are already text-based browsers like qutebrowser but they require mastering a command language. creating a natural language interface based on a constrained language is bound to come with the same sort of problem apple had with hypercard: easy to read, diabolic to write. i wonder how they solve for that.
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there are already text-based browsers like qutebrowser
hypercard
Awesome! Thanks for the references, didn't know there were already some applications in this direction
there is a rich history of programming languages which are supposed to read like natural language. it gave us beauties like COBOL, SQL, and HyperCard. in other words, it's not good.
as for text browsers, nyxt is probably the one that's closest, or some browser mode in emacs.
ultimately what you want with navigation is precision and minimal typing, so a natural language interface is slow, and an ACE interface would be even slower.
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