That's interesting idea. If we put into CLI with some ANSI escape code, that may become something real. Imagine a normal terminal app just render part of the UI in web and communicating in UNIX socket. While doing the fancy UI, everything is still controllable with keyboard, and optionally with mouse. The UI will fallback to text UI for older terminal

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ori_b 2 hours ago | parent [-]

So, uh... X11? VNC? RDP?

	▲	flying_sheep an hour ago \| parent [-]
		No no not something on top of the UI stack. They also need framebuffer support so they are big headache to setup on headless server. What I mean is that we can bring some web tech to terminal natively. We don't even need a separated shell. Security and bi-directional communication is built by default because of UNIX socket. But we still need to think how to handle stuff like cookie, local storage, external CSS / JS, ...