Dillo says hi

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Dillo says hi
started by: curaga

Posted by curaga on Oct. 15 2008,16:06

I stumbled upon the news that a stable Dillo 2.0 had been released yesterday. They mention us in the release announcement

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Dillo-2.0 has been released!
Today, after a long period of inactivity, a new release was made. It's being a long way and this dillo-2.0 release comes with a boat load of improvements.

You will find: tabbed browsing, antialiasing, different character sets, accepting compressed pages, control over image loading, smaller footprint, near 50% smaller memory usage, fewer dependencies, better table rendering, bugfixes, improved GUI, among others!

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Distributions including dillo (hint hint DSL!) are strongly encouraged to switch to the new branch. It's better, easier to package (FLTK2 is statically linked), and even more memory efficient.

DSL is linked to the DSL homepage.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Oct. 15 2008,17:15

sweet.

Who wants to build it? Wonder if there's a recommended version for fltk2...

Posted by WDef on Oct. 15 2008,20:03

Lovely, I do like dillo.

Posted by mikshaw on Oct. 17 2008,15:43

I tried the debian binary, but it needs several newer libs than those found in DSL. Haven't tried compiling it yet.

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Wonder if there's a recommended version for fltk2

I'm pretty sure they said r6403 as a recommendation, although I can't find the page where I saw this to verify.

EDIT: it was stated in the README included with the Dillo source.

Posted by florian on Oct. 17 2008,18:31

Not Dillo related, but there is now an alpha for Firefox mobile that also runs on Linux x86: < http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog....e-alpha >

Posted by webeye on Oct. 17 2008,21:28

Dillo gets even better.Hurrah, I use Dillo a lot.

Posted by mikshaw on Oct. 26 2008,01:02

Still haven't tried to compile it in DSL, but thought I'd mention...
I'm guessing there'd be a redundancy issue if this was included in DSL base, since it uses FLTK 2.
DSL since 4.0 (I think) has FLTK 1. Including Dillo 2 would require either statically linking FLTK 2 to dillo (added file size) or converting FLTK 1 apps to FLTK 2, or including both FLTK 1 and FLTK 2

Posted by chalbersma on Dec. 10 2008,06:58

I compiled fltk2 and dillo2 and have created rudimentary .dsl and .unc for these two packages, they both work fairly well.

However I'm come across a problem. I need a way to stop the old dpi's from running before running the new dillo but I only need to do it once. I was wondering if anyone has had an experience dealing with one and done scripts.

Also the new dillo doesn't handle most web pages yet. If you browse their mailling lists you will see that they have had some problems implementing css support to a point where it will work so many pages with css (like the damn small wiki) don't show up when loaded.