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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. @@ -40,8 +54,19 @@ whichever method you like, or both at the same time (command mode, insert mode, ### Why do you depend on gtk? Uzbl itself doesn't use much gtk stuff (only the statusbar) so we could do without gtk. But Webkit needs a widget toolkit to create widgets (think javascript popups, html forms etc). -It also supports QT and wxwigdets. One could argue we don't need no popups or fancy form widgets and you could have a point, but forking webkit would bring us way to far. -And we don't find the use of gtk *that* disturbing. Besides, a curses/xlib html form wouldn't look too nice, would it? +Officially, it also supports QT and wxwigdets. There are also some unofficial patchsets floating on the interwebs for the EFL and FLTK toolkits. One could argue we don't need no popups or fancy form widgets and you could have a point, but +we prefer being reasonably assured that things work as they are supposed to rather then using some obscure patchset which may be incomplete, broken and/or badly designed, or wasting time ourselves in what is not our core objective. +Note that we do *not* depend on any Gnome libraries such as gconf. _That_ would be something worth complaining about :) + +### 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 :) |