25 Years of Dillo

I am so delighted to see Dillo is back and being maintained again! I was looking at it in mid 2023 and was sad to see the repo linked from the main site was dead and the general lack of activity. Off the back of this, I started looking at how to extract it and use it as a library (which I ultimately failed at, alas).

I've subsequently started a little project I'm calling Freeflow, which is intended to break down pages from 'modern' html to a subset renderable in Dillo, NetSurf, etc - essentially a standard set of xpath queries for tags like `navigation` etc, plus some tinkering with RSS and other things which display pages without styling.

Now that Dillo is alive again, I'm inclined to give writing it as a DPI a whirl.

So pleased to see this. Keeping these things alive is important.

>On March of 2000, the license was changed to the GPLv3 with the permission of Raph Levien (the main developer of Gzilla/Armadillo).

This does not sound right. GPLv3 is much newer than that.

dillo-0.1.0 release notes from March 2000:

> * Changed the licence to GPL. (Raph agreed on that)

So it's probably just a typo in the article. Intended point is that the license was changed from Gzilla's private copyright notice[1] to the GPL of the time, which would probably be v2.

Nonetheless Dillo's code is also licensed under GPLv3 now.

1: https://levien.com/gzilla/Copying.txt

I actually find I am using dillo more and more these days. Thanks for maintaining it.

When I was in high school in the early 2000s, my daily driver was a 70MHz SPARCstation 5. Not a fast machine, but Dillo ran on it well.

I'm glad it's still around.