This is awesome and I used it for digital signage on the original Raspberry Pi hardware for a long time (https://github.com/rcarmo/digital-signage-client), but the WebKit version became somewhat outdated.
Might be worth revisiting if your content renders on it...
I miss examples on the website, both code samples and examples of what this looks like. And since it is GUI related, i kinda expects at least some screenshots.
It's mind-boggling how many applications don't include screenshots, especially considering how easy it is to take and upload them. Even if the given application is CLI-based, I want to know how it looks like to quickly make sense of how it operates!
From what I gathered, it's basically a socket command interface to Webkit. So you can create things that manipulate webpages. The portion you would see wouldn't be provided by uzbl.
Edit:
> There's no "uzbl" command, that's just the name for the whole collection of tools. The command you're looking for is uzbl-browser or uzbl-tabbed.
> The central program uzbl-core doesn't do many useful things by itself, it's meant for integration with other tools and scripts. See README.
> Once you've got uzbl-browser or uzbl-tabbed running, the first thing to do is look at the keybindings. The second thing to do is explore the default configuration (~/.config/uzbl/config).
I think people just find moderately interesting things online and post them on HN to maybe revitalise them and give them some exposure, or, pessimistically speaking, just in hopes to get some upvotes.
There's another similar project brewing in suckless universe: https://surf.suckless.org/ I haven't tried that one. I've used UZBL a lot some years ago and it was awesome.
If you are looking for something that's still maintained, there is a list minimal browsers in the qutebrowser README [1], which is another keyboard-based browser.
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Edit:
> There's no "uzbl" command, that's just the name for the whole collection of tools. The command you're looking for is uzbl-browser or uzbl-tabbed.
> The central program uzbl-core doesn't do many useful things by itself, it's meant for integration with other tools and scripts. See README.
> Once you've got uzbl-browser or uzbl-tabbed running, the first thing to do is look at the keybindings. The second thing to do is explore the default configuration (~/.config/uzbl/config).
1. as an expert on this subject this thing you posted is a waste of time or not for these reasons
2. X is nice but check out Y!
also as a LOCKSS principle I figure if I have a hard time finding it in my bookmarks in the future maybe I can find it in my submissions.
[1]: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser#similar-projects