SliTaz Web Browser
TazWeb is radically simple and very light web browser providing a single window with a small toolbar, but without any menubar or tabs. Navigation is done with a right click anywhere in the browser window or from the toolbar. Also a fullscreen mode, bookmarks, home page and this documentation file are accessible from the right-hand side of the toolbar.
SliTaz Web Browser was created for the needs of TazPanel which is the SliTaz administration and packages manager panel and made with the latest technologies such as xHTML 5 and CSS 3 for the graphical user interface. The content is powered by CGI scripts and the prefered web server is Busybox httpd.
The browser is small, very small, the binary is about 16 Kb and uses the Webkit engine for page rendering and therefore, supports all latest web standards as well as Javascript.
My TazWeb Page
TazWeb handle a personnal page located in your Freedesktop standard configuration directory, the path is: $HOME/.config/tazweb/page.html It let you have a custom page with bookmarks and other content. The CSS style is defined in $HOME/.config/tazweb/style.css
The file is a simple xHTML 5 document with, by default, a list of links and a box. You can edit this file with you favorite editor and add content such as bookmarks entries or change the look and feel as you want. At first start TazWeb will create and copy your personnal page and style in your config directory.
To add some life on your page you can use your own Javascript widgets or some from a third party website such as a the famous Twitter Widget as seen on SliTaz main website.
Note: You will find the default page.html in: /usr/share/tazweb and can get an original copy with the following commands in a terminal:
$ mkdir -p $HOME/.config/tazweb $ cp /usr/share/tazweb/*.html $HOME/.config/tazweb $ cp /usr/share/tazweb/*.css $HOME/.config/tazweb
Home page and url in argument
The default start page has been defined in the source code and can't be changed and is the default SliTaz WebHome, but TazWeb accepts an URL as a first argument, example: http://www.slitaz.org/. In this way you can for example create your own and custom home page in a pretty xHTML document and start tazweb with a standard desktop file or from the command line: tazweb file://$HOME/.config/tazweb/home.html
If you want a custom home page for your Live system or all system users, you can create your own slitaz-configs package or edit the xHTML file located in /usr/share/webhome/index.html. If you modify it, make sure to block slitaz-configs or make a backup because it will be overwritten with a slitaz-configs package update.
Web applications
TazWeb browser is perfect to launch web applications via a simple desktop file. Once created with a simple text editor, the desktop file can stand on the desktop with a nice icon or in the standard SliTaz menu. Example of a web application launcher that you could name scn.desktop:
[Desktop Entry] Type=Application Name=SliTaz SCN Icon=slitaz-menu Exec=tazweb http://scn.slitaz.org/