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author | Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be> | 2009-05-02 19:51:48 +0200 |
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committer | Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@plaetinck.be> | 2009-05-02 19:51:48 +0200 |
commit | 75f12603a6291bf1ee6a4656da6708829b89c084 (patch) | |
tree | b40b2923ddd024c59e64446286d57a328ddfe362 /FAQ | |
parent | 7c4b1f695dc51d44949741910c7722b76e59a168 (diff) |
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@@ -20,6 +20,20 @@ Zenity is also an option, if you want copy-paste support. Uzbl's layout only contains what you really need to see. we only have a statusbar, which even can also be disabled. There are no buttons, but we do have lots of keybinding possibilities. +### What? No support for bookmarks/history/downloads/cookies/... ? Your project sucks! +We do not support *management* of those things, because we believe a browser should only do browsing. We are firm believers in the unix philosophy. +You have to look at the bigger picture. In fact, we do support all these things. Take bookmarks as an example: + + * we support keybinding and spawning external programs, so you can bind a key to spawn any script you want + * Your script receives properties such as the current url, window title etc. + * You can then call a tool such as zenity to prompt for any more information you may want to specify (tags,...) + * You have the freedom to store the bookmarks in whichever format you want. (plaintext, sqlite, any database, on a remote system, in version control, ...) + * To load a bookmark, you trigger another script which invokes a tool such as dmenu to let you pick a bookmark. Your script can send the command to load the url to uzbl very easily by using the socket or fifo interface. + * To manage your bookmarks, you can use whatever you want, depending on how you store them (simple text editor, database interface, ... ) + +These ideas are something we want to consistently apply throughout the entire application. (Even more, throughout our entire desktop environment) +In fact, we actually ship various sample scripts and some sample configs that make it easy for you to implement your workflow. + ### Why can't I type anything in forms? How does the keybinding work? You are in command mode, not in insert mode. @@ -46,5 +60,12 @@ And we don't find the use of gtk *that* disturbing. Besides, a curses/xlib html ### Do you support flash? javascript? Ajax? Recent html/css/.. standards? Yes, Webkit takes care of all of that. Not that we like all of these, but you can use them if you want. +### Does the world really need another browser? +We did try a lot of browsers, and we do not suffer [NIH](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_Invented_Here). +We believe that the approach taken by way too many browsers is wrong. We do not want browsers that try to do everything, +instead we prefer a system where different applications work together, which gives plenty of advantages. +We also like open source. We take a lot of things from other projects and we also try to contribute to other projects. + + ### What? You call all of this user-friendly? Yes. If you don't agree, don't use it :) |