Had No idea Raph Levian was behind the origins of Dillo. What a storied career, he really built some great stuff all across the spectrum and continues to focus on interesting stuff. I really liked his posts about rope data structures when he was working on text editors.
25 Years of Dillo
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Re: 25 Years of Dillo
#32For those curious about Dillo, you can try it right now in your browser. On the JSLinux site, the graphical VMs come with Dillo 3.0.5:
https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=alpine-x86-xwin.cfg&...
(Warning: this will download 30+ MB)
After it starts up, right click, and then choose Browser - Dillo. There's no HTTPS support, but Google and httpbin.org work at least.
Re: 25 Years of Dillo
#33For those curious about Dillo, you can try it right now in your browser. On the JSLinux site, the graphical VMs come with Dillo 3.0.5: https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=alpine-x86-xwin.cfg&... (Warning: this will download 30+ MB) After it starts up, right click, and then choose Browser - Dillo. There's no HTTPS support, but Google and httpbin.org work at least.
I heard you like browsers dog
Re: 25 Years of Dillo
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately, with it's use of Swift code, QT (which is now a bloated piece of trash since version 5) etc. It's just not tenable unless they give us a pure version without that shit
QT I can see how it is disturbing. Swift I can not see how it would bloat anything for end users. It’s just another compiled language.
It’s a compiled language, but in terms of runtime performance, memory usage, and binary size, it’s closer to C#/Java/Go than C/C++/Rust. Yet its compile times are among the worst of any of those.
Re: 25 Years of Dillo
#35I remember using Dillo years ago, I think on Damn Small Linux.
Seconded. 1.44 megabytes is not that much, DSL was very impressive on that storage budget. I wonder how small a Linux system is possible these days, even without any GUI functionality.
Re: 25 Years of Dillo
#36I used Dillo when I ran OpenBSD on my laptop in 2003. Running a full desktop environment with text editor and web browser open: 28 MB RAM I remember that Dillo did not support automatic redirects back then. They were everywhere.
I did the same with Slackware in 2004. The browser experience wasn't the best, but I still managed to be very productive at that time.
I think there is no Windows 11 port of Dillo available so I sometime use Netsurf and Links Windows ports on Windows!
Re: 25 Years of Dillo
#37had to read that title twice
Re: 25 Years of Dillo
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
What about Netsurf? Have you tried it?
Personally, I’m resisting upgrading to links from lynx.
I remember as a teenager wondering why lynx felt so slow, so I looked into the source code and discovered it was literally calling sleep() while displaying status messages, so I commented that out and made my internet experience Blazingly Fast
Re: 25 Years of Dillo
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Personally, I’m resisting upgrading to links from lynx.
I remember as a teenager wondering why lynx felt so slow, so I looked into the source code and discovered it was literally calling sleep() while displaying status messages, so I commented that out and made my internet experience Blazingly Fast
oh I just looked into it again for fun and noticed that indeed it defaults to sleeping at least 2 seconds every time you open a URL but this can be changed in lynx.cfg by altering these defaults:
#INFOSECS:1
#MESSAGESECS:2
#ALERTSECS:3Re: 25 Years of Dillo
#40For those curious about Dillo, you can try it right now in your browser. On the JSLinux site, the graphical VMs come with Dillo 3.0.5: https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=alpine-x86-xwin.cfg&... (Warning: this will download 30+ MB) After it starts up, right click, and then choose Browser - Dillo. There's no HTTPS support, but Google and httpbin.org work at least.
I heard you like browsers dog
*yo dawg