Uzbl - web interface tools which adhere to the unixphilosophy

Dieter Plaetinck

23-07-2010

The unix philosophy.

Examples

I mpd

I dmenu

I awesome/xmonad/dwm/wmii/...

I dzen

I bitlbee

I bashrun

Stats

I start april 2k9

I 60 contributors

I 11k LOC

I 13 releases

I 100+ scripts

I less active latest few months, many pending patches

Uzbl?

I uzbl-core

I uzbl-browser

I uzbl-tabbed

I ...

Uzbl-core

Uzbl-core command examples

I uri uri

I reload

I zoom in

I spawn command

I event name args

Uzbl-core event examples

I DOWNLOAD REQUEST uri

I LOAD PROGRESS percentage

I FORM ACTIVE

I GEOMETRY CHANGED WxH+Xpos+Ypos

I KEY PRESS key/button

Uzbl-browser

Uzbl-browser features

I config file

I event manager

I EM plugins: bind, mode, keycmd, completion, progressbar

I handlers: downloads, authentication, cookies, schemes

I history & bookmarks

I yanking & pasting

I forms: auto filling & editing with external editor

I page search & zooming

I link hinting

I and more..

Uzbl-browser features

I config file

I event manager

I EM plugins: bind, mode, keycmd, completion, progressbar

I handlers: downloads, authentication, cookies, schemes

I history & bookmarks

I yanking & pasting

I forms: auto filling & editing with external editor

I page search & zooming

I link hinting

I and more..

Uzbl-browser features

I config file

I event manager

I EM plugins: bind, mode, keycmd, completion, progressbar

I handlers: downloads, authentication, cookies, schemes

I history & bookmarks

I yanking & pasting

I forms: auto filling & editing with external editor

I page search & zooming

I link hinting

I and more..

Uzbl-browser features

I config file

I event manager

I EM plugins: bind, mode, keycmd, completion, progressbar

I handlers: downloads, authentication, cookies, schemes

I history & bookmarks

I yanking & pasting

I forms: auto filling & editing with external editor

I page search & zooming

I link hinting

I and more..

Uzbl-browser features

I config file

I event manager

I EM plugins: bind, mode, keycmd, completion, progressbar

I handlers: downloads, authentication, cookies, schemes

I history & bookmarks

I yanking & pasting

I forms: auto filling & editing with external editor

I page search & zooming

I link hinting

I and more..

Uzbl-browser features

I config file

I event manager

I EM plugins: bind, mode, keycmd, completion, progressbar

I handlers: downloads, authentication, cookies, schemes

I history & bookmarks

I yanking & pasting

I forms: auto filling & editing with external editor

I page search & zooming

I link hinting

I and more..

Uzbl-browser features

I config file

I event manager

I EM plugins: bind, mode, keycmd, completion, progressbar

I handlers: downloads, authentication, cookies, schemes

I history & bookmarks

I yanking & pasting

I forms: auto filling & editing with external editor

I page search & zooming

I link hinting

I and more..

Uzbl-browser features

I config file

I event manager

I EM plugins: bind, mode, keycmd, completion, progressbar

I handlers: downloads, authentication, cookies, schemes

I history & bookmarks

I yanking & pasting

I forms: auto filling & editing with external editor

I page search & zooming

I link hinting

I and more..

Uzbl-browser features

I config file

I event manager

I EM plugins: bind, mode, keycmd, completion, progressbar

I handlers: downloads, authentication, cookies, schemes

I history & bookmarks

I yanking & pasting

I forms: auto filling & editing with external editor

I page search & zooming

I link hinting

I and more..

History

Writing the entries:

s e t on even t = even t ON EVENT@on event LOAD FINISH spawn @ s c r i p t s d i r / h i s t o r y . sh

f i l e=$XDG DATA HOME/ uzb l / h i s t o r yecho ‘ date +’%Y−%m−%d %H:%M:%S ’ ‘ ” $6 $7” >> $ f i l e

Picking an entry:

@cbind U = spawn @ s c r i p t s d i r / l o a d u r l f r om h i s t o r y . sh

f i l e=$XDG DATA HOME/ uzb l / h i s t o r ygoto=‘ tac $ f i l e | dmenu | cut −d ’ ’ −f 3 ‘echo ” u r i $goto ” > $4

History

Writing the entries:

s e t on even t = even t ON EVENT@on event LOAD FINISH spawn @ s c r i p t s d i r / h i s t o r y . sh

f i l e=$XDG DATA HOME/ uzb l / h i s t o r yecho ‘ date +’%Y−%m−%d %H:%M:%S ’ ‘ ” $6 $7” >> $ f i l e

Picking an entry:

@cbind U = spawn @ s c r i p t s d i r / l o a d u r l f r om h i s t o r y . sh

f i l e=$XDG DATA HOME/ uzb l / h i s t o r ygoto=‘ tac $ f i l e | dmenu | cut −d ’ ’ −f 3 ‘echo ” u r i $goto ” > $4

Uzbl-browser history

Uzbl-browser link hinting

@cbind f l ∗ = s c r i p t @ s c r i p t s d i r / f o l l o w . j s ’ @ f o l l ow k e y s %s ’

Uzbl-tabbed

Uzbl-tabbed

Example: Dynamic zooming

Example: Adding a bookmark, external script

@cbind B = spawn @ s c r i p t s d i r / i n s e r t bookma rk . sh

Example: Adding a bookmark, builtin way

@cbind <Ct r l>b<t ag s :> = sh ’ echo −e ”$6 %s ” >> $ f i l e ’

Uzbl related/inspired browsers

I surf

I vimperator

I jumanji

I luakit

I vimprobable

I vimpression

I vimnav

I dwb

I pyweb

I ffuzbl

I Ezbl

roadmap, current limitations

I less NIH keybindings, config language

I performance?

I isolatedworlds to bring back Uzbl js object

www.uzbl.org