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Lobster · Posted: Thu 28 May 2009, 03:04 Post subject:

Ah yes was going to ask about right button usage.
Maybe someone will work out a way of doing that?
(Could barely understand the explanation - needs
to be a Puppy with a full set of vitamin injections)

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1538 Location: Ukraine

Dear Mark,

The presentation language idea is brilliant - a poor man's powerpoint that would take absolutely no extra room on the disk. I checked to see whether there wasn't a Firefox extension that did something like this and did not find one, so you seem to be the first person to think of using a browser for this task. Great.

We are all waiting...and wish you success.

With kind regards,
vovchik

Lobster · Posted: Thu 28 May 2009, 05:32 Post subject:

guys,

Question: If using "Webkit" as alternative to Gecko would that enable any potential speedup that Google was able to introduce?.

Here is the 5.x prototype presentation I mentioned with FullerScreen in Woof (Puppy 5)
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=303262#303262

As far as I am aware Fullerscreen is also available for Firefox

However I feel Marks presentation language sounds much simpler
and being designed for Puppy . . . well . . . hope Barry adopts it Smile

I believe we are now largely independent of Seamonkey
apart from having Composer - m m m . . .

gposil · Posted: Thu 28 May 2009, 07:19 Post subject:

Lobster Said

mowestusa · Joined: 14 May 2009 Posts: 12

peppyy · Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 443 Location: VT USA

Out of curiosity I wanted to try this on 3.01 but I am guessing that it won't run on this version of gtk. The command #puppy-browser opens the default browser, in my case Firefox.

MU · Posted: Mon 01 Jun 2009, 16:29 Post subject:

peppyy,
your Gtk is too old.
I had to compile a special version without tooltip support. I can have a look in the next days.

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I uploaded PuppyBrowser 0.5, see changelog:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=303882#303882

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I also uploaded "Embedded Bookmarks 0.1".

This is a special program.
It opens a "tree", where you can open "bookmarks" sorted by categories.
Bookmarks are added by editing a configfile.

A bookmark can be a link, for example a link to a Flash SWF video.
Or it can be a "embedded code".
This code MUST be not more than one line.
For example here:
http://www.youtube.com/deutschewelleenglish
you can find such "embedded code", so it allows you to see a video, without opening a "full" page in a webbrowser.

You also can add PuppyBrowser options, like width or height of the browser.
The opened Browserwindow has no navigation toolbars, as it is intended as "multimedia viewer", not as webbrowser in this case.

Mark

MU · Posted: Tue 02 Jun 2009, 16:52 Post subject:

I uploaded "Embedded Bookmarks 0.2".

You now have two more options for each bookmark.

-run=

This launches an external viewer, not Puppybrowser.
I added an example, that show Deluxe Music as Videostream in mplayer (mms://).

-converter=

This converts the link of the bookmark.
You can place own converterscripts in /usr/local/EmbeddedBookmarks/.
Included is an example:

-converter=youtube2swf
Here the link of the bookmark can be a youtube site, like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faYW0CIpJsM&feature=popular

The converscript will download that site, and analyze the code in it.
It "grabs" the flashvideo, and turns it into a normal link, that then is opened directly with Puppybrowser.
This might not always work, I must enhance the converter for the next release.

Advantage:
you can scale the video by resizing Puppybrowser, and see no adverts Smile

Like this you now can use EmbedddBookmarks to store *any* file or weblocation, to open it with your favourite program.
Mark

MU · Posted: Thu 04 Jun 2009, 01:58 Post subject:

I updated EmbeddedBookmarks to version 0.3.

- fixed a bug when you clicked on a bookmark again, it sometimes opened wrong.

- added two commadlineoptions.

The first is the name of the bookmarksfile to use, the second will set another word for "category" in the tree.

I'll explain in detail in this thread, how you can convert complete folders like MP3 collections to a configfile:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=43087
An example "audiobooks" is included in the menu.

Mark

MU · Posted: Sun 07 Jun 2009, 21:26 Post subject:

I can try to extend the EmbeddedBookmarks to get the same "easy usage" (add a website with a buttonclick, add an optional desktopicon) as Prism this or next week:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=42294

Mark

sue · Joined: 09 May 2008 Posts: 23 Location: Anaheim, CA, USA

If you don't like s5, try slidy.

capoverde · Posted: Tue 16 Jun 2009, 21:54 Post subject:

Testing Puppybrowser 0.5 on Puppy 4.76 with absolute satisfaction -- and awe! Another big hit for Puppy, sincere compliments Mark. Very Happy

Will test it on old boxes, should be tops.
Also tried to locate Barry's "massaged" version (0.5.1) but didn't find it on ibiblio or elsewhere -- can anyone help?

smokey01 · Posted: Wed 17 Jun 2009, 05:40 Post subject:

Hi Mark, great job on the Puppy Browser 0.5. It;s simple and quick. Is it possible to add additional bookmarks. the dropdown menu will fill up quickly. It would be good if they could be nested like the embedded bookmarks tree.

I also like embeddedbookmarks which unfortunately has stopped working. I tried to paste an embedded link into the config file and it hasn't worked since. I have uninstalled and installed it at least three times but it still won't work. I think if I could locate the config file I could probably remove the embedded link and it would work again.

What is the name of the config file and where is it located?

I was trying to get it to work with just the video and not the rest of the browser page. From what I read in your post it is possible.

A little help file would be useful for first time users too.

I haven't quite got the hang of picture viewer yet. It works fine if you drop a JPG or PDF file onto it from ROX but not so reliable if you drag a graphic from a web page on to it. Some load most don't.

I'm currently using Puppy 4.2 Retro Full install.

Regards

Smokey

ttuuxxx · Posted: Wed 17 Jun 2009, 06:34 Post subject:

Hi mark just tried it with the 2.14.1X I've been working it, It worked great with seamonkey installed, 2.14.1X has FF3.5 as default browser, seamonkey is a addon, So when I deleted Seamonkey as you do, Wink

it wouldn't work, well of course not because it was missing libxpcom_core.so, and libgtkembedmoz.so
so I then copied them over from seamonkey to the firefox browser folder and made the system links and now it It said that I wasn't missing anything, when I did the ldd on the bin, and 2 lib files. but when I tried it, it just seg faulted, Anyway of having this lite browser work on firefox only system without dragging in half of seamonkey, ??
ttuuxxx

MU · Posted: Wed 17 Jun 2009, 17:04 Post subject:

capoverde,
thanks for your feedback Smile

Barry usually uploads files here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-woof/

But the 0.5.1 seems to be not uploaded yet, the one mentioned here:
http://puppylinux.com/blog/?viewDetailed=00808

Smokey,

the configfile for the embedded bookmarks is:
/root/.EmbeddedBookmarks/channels2.txt

The bookmarks of Puppybrowser itself are:
/root/.PuppyBrowser/bookmarks.rc

I can't promise, when I find time to enhance the normal bookmarks to support categories, too.

Just came home from the short holiday, and tomorrow I'm away again.

ttuuxx,

Firefox 3 no longer supports the gtkmozembed API (Application Programming Interface), neither does Seamonkey 2.x.
So Puppybrowser depends on Seamokey 1.x or the xulrunner mentioned in the message, where you can download it.

I don't know yet, what new API is available for the newer browsers.
Mark