ANSI Viewer

A Firefox addon which let you view .ans file in the browser.

Features

• View ANSI files in your browser. Simply drag-n-drop them on the browser.
• Use Big5-UAO as encoding.
• pmore animation.
• Invert color with Alt+L.
• Valid file extensions: .ans, .ansi, .bbs.
• Or with content-type == "text/x-ansi".
• Live reload if the file is served from file:.
• Support Firefox and Chrome.

Install

Firefox

Install from AMO: https://addons.mozilla.org/zh-TW/firefox/addon/ansi-viewer/

Chrome

Download the latest release and load it as an unpacked extension: https://github.com/eight04/ansi-viewer/releases

Screenshots

With cleartype

Without cleartype

Build from source

1. Install Node.js
2. Clone the repo:

   git clone https://github.com/eight04/ansi-viewer.git && cd ansi-viewer
   

3. Install dependencies and build the extension:

   npm install && npm run build
   

Run test

npm test

Pack zip

npm run build-zip

You can find the zip file in web-ext-artifacts.

Changelog

• 4.0.0 (Feb 11, 2022)

  • Refactor: build all dependencies.
  • Fix: compatible with Chrome.

• 3.0.0 (Jun 21, 2018)

  • Rewrite. Content scripts, background scripts, and worker are mostly bundled.
  • Fix: failed to render ANSI file on the first load.
  • Add: use a worker to compile ANSI string.

• 2.0.2 (Feb 21, 2017)

  • Update bbs-reader to 0.3.1. Fix infinite loop bug.

• 2.0.1 (Jan 21, 2016)

  • Update uao-js to 1.0.1. Use our table loader to reduce file size.

• 2.0.0 (Jan 17, 2016)

  • Rewrite with Web Extension.
  • Add live reload feature. Only works on file: protocol.

• 1.4.0 (Sep 27, 2016)

  • Support multiprocess.
  • Fix charset problem when using context menu to convert text file.

• 1.3.0 (Sep 21, 2016)

  • Update bbs-reader to 0.3.0. Some style changed.
  • Add context menu "View as ANSI", which let you view any text file (text/plain) in ANSI mode. (#2)

• 1.2.3 (Sep 6, 2016)

  • Update bbs-reader to 0.2.4. Fix w > 80 bug.
  • Fix: right border disappears when horizontal scrollbar exists.

• 1.2.2 (Jul 19, 2016)

  • Update bbs-reader to 0.2.3. Fix ANSI color bug and HTML entity bug.

• 1.2.1 (Jun 24 2016)

  • Update bbs-reader to 0.2.2. Fix a bug with consequent escape code.

• 1.2.0 (Apr 30, 2016)

  • Update bbs-reader to 0.2.1.
  • Remove 80 characters width limit.
  • Use CSS animation for blinking text.

• 1.1.0 (Apr 30, 2016)

  • Move to bbs-reader.
  • Work with pmore-js!
  • Drop mousetrap

• 1.0.0 (Apr 28, 2016)

  • Move to uao-js.
  • License change to MIT.

• 0.1.1 (Apr 26, 2016)

  • Fix license.
  • Fix color overflow bug.
  • Add color for replies. (:)

• 0.1.0 (Apr 25, 2016)

  • First release.