On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Michael <mi...@netspark.org> wrote: > Jacob Todd wrote: >> Has anyone tried out uzbl (http://uzbl.org)? Seems interesting, it would >> be nice to replace firefox with this. I plan on installing it on my >> gentoo system later today. >> > > I have tried it already, and found very nasty thing about native > language handling (filed bug already), although I think the idea is > fantastic. I really tired with firefox eating hundred of megs, although > everything I need is a rendered page; text and "diet" browsers didn't > work well with sites which I visit regularly. > > Although concept of one page per instance isn't very useful for me right > now. I use dwm, and I want web page be full screen, but if I'm not in > monocle mode, pages get shrunk in a half if there is more than one page, > which is bad, and monocle mode isn't useful because I want my terminal > windows be tiled. > > I would be happy with buffers concept, like in Vim - you see only one > buffer in a time, but able to switch between, but probably it isn't what > developers want.
That is a window management issue, it should be handled by the window manager, as you well note later on. One thing I hate is every damned app trying to do its own quirky pseudo-window-management, this is something that the uzbl people have got right, and I hope they don't change it. uriel > > Another solution would be create tag for unwanted pages and bring one > (or few) of them to front when I need them, but unfortunately, to make > such things automatic dwm needs some kind of remote control, which is > not implemented yet (and probably won't). > > Anyway, great idea, thank you very much. > >
