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Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0
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Re: Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0
#22Unfortunately even Google started requiring JS, which was a huge attack against small browsers and the open web.
But does it require ES6? Javascript was quite minimal in the early days. It doesn't need a JIT, in fact I'd prefer it not to be.
The difficult bit isn't the core JavaScript support. There are a dozen engines packaged as libraries that can use for that. The difficult bit is supporting all of the hundreds of DOM APIs.
Re: Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0
#23dilloc began before the 3.3.0 release, in some previous git commits and it was amazing.
It's pretty easy to write a redirect menu item calling a script similar to a plumber/xdg-open replacing the JS url's with non JS ones, a la Libredirect under Firefox/Chromium.
Re: Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0
#24Am I the only one who has to giggle when reading that name? I know people have somewhat related thoughts about the image editor called GIMP.
> Am I the only one who has to giggle when reading that name?
Oh, I know exactly what you’re talking about. I too am reminded of Tom Bombadil’s song from The Fellowship of the Ring every time Dillo is mentioned.
Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo!
Ring a dong! hop along! fal lal the willow!
Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!Re: Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0
#25Unfortunately even Google started requiring JS, which was a huge attack against small browsers and the open web.
Yep, https://html.duckduckgo.com works well in such browser though :)
Also check out http://frogfind.com/, it automatically converts results into basic HTML.
Re: Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
But does it require ES6? Javascript was quite minimal in the early days. It doesn't need a JIT, in fact I'd prefer it not to be.
The difficult bit isn't the core JavaScript support. There are a dozen engines packaged as libraries that can use for that. The difficult bit is supporting all of the hundreds of DOM APIs.
Also the "undefined behaviours" used for fingerprinting and denying access to non-mainstream UAs even if they have JS support. If I remember correctly, YouTube was doing something like that.
Re: Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0
#27i totally misread the title of this post. What is wrong with me?
Dildo Browser sounds like the name of a website aggregating sex toy store products. Could be interesting to build if it doesn't exist yet. Maybe add features like showing where a given product is available at the lowest price, product comparisons, and user reviews.
Re: Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0
#28Unfortunately even Google started requiring JS, which was a huge attack against small browsers and the open web.
The Google index is still accessible from many other "proxy search engines" that still work without JS, one example is Startpage. See the nice list from Seirdy for more details on search engines: https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-...
First thing I see when I try to visit Startpage, for probably the first time ever, is "Our system has detected the type of high-volume traffic coming from your internet connection that is normally associated with bots and scrapers." WTF. Total BULLSHIT. I have accessed that site precisely ZERO times from this IP. Now it will be one, and the last time I ever try.
Re: Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0
#29Is there a current and pre-compiled Windows port for Dillo somewhere?
Re: Dillo Browser Release 3.3.0
#30i already mentioned it in other Dillo-related posts, but i can not repeat enough: Dillo was the browser enabled me to view the web at all on my first old 486 PC, packed in Damn Small Linux.