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@@ -68,12 +68,19 @@ Note that we do *not* depend on any Gnome libraries such as gconf. _That_ would ### 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. +### What's the difference between the socket file and the fifo? +They both have advantages and disadvantages: + + * fifo's are _very_ easy to work with. You can write just plaintext commands into them, but they are unidirectional (you can only communicate in one direction) + * Sockets are bidirectional but more complex. You cannot just write a plaintext string into them. In shellscripts you can use uzblctrl or netcat to work with sockets, when programming you need to use library functions. + +So, when writing scripts, using fifo's is usually the fastest method (because you do not need to fork another process), so fifo is preferred unless you need a response. + ### 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 :) diff --git a/docs/INSTALL b/docs/INSTALL index 3453e03..1c0d007 100644 --- a/docs/INSTALL +++ b/docs/INSTALL @@ -1,11 +1,13 @@ -Arch Linux ----------- +Packages +-------- [Arch Linux](http://www.archlinux.org) is our distro of choice, and the distro we use for testing. You can find a [PKGBUILD](http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25972) on the AUR, which installs the latest from the master branch. You can edit the PKGBUILD to change to any other branch you want. +For other distros, see [uzbl.org/wiki/howtos](http://www.uzbl.org/wiki/howtos) + From source ----------- You can pull the code from git or get a tagged tarball. |