dillo: a super fast web browser
January 30th, 2008 by TinchoArticle submitted by Kam Salisbury. Guess what? We still need you to submit good articles about software you like!
Dillo is a extremely stable, fast and light web browser. Based on GTK+, you can install Dillo from apt-get or snyaptic for just about any hardware platform and window manager supported by Debian or Ubuntu. Dillo is written entirely in C for speed and compatibility and is best for tasks where being fast and frugal on memory are the highest priorities. Perfect for large image archive displays!
Dillo does not support several web protocols which helps it run faster. For example, standards compliant HTML content will be rendered correctly but do not expect the CSS, DHTML or Javascript to work correctly or at all.
Nevertheless, the version found in Debian already includes some patches that improve Dillo giving it support for: different encodings, anti-aliased fonts, frames, tabs, SSL and miscellaneous improvements. See this page for details.
A recent addition to the package, bugmeter displays the amount of HTML errors of the web page being viewed.
The project is currently looking for new developers, if interested please review the contact information at dillo.org.
Dillo has been available in both Debian and Ubuntu for many years
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January 30th, 2008 at 11:35 am
I tought dillo project is dead.
January 30th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
I have used Dillo for several years, but lately it became unuseable with a “ERROR: Dns can’t solve (Null)” message for whatever url I try to browse.
At the moment I have 0.8.6-i18n-misc installed on Debian
January 30th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Cool, I wish I had known about this several years ago, I might have attempted to port it to Palm OS. Maybe in the next few years another mobile OS that is in need of a web browser will emerge.
This looks great for mobile devices, kiosks, embedded systems, etc.
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On the web page is says that dillo is “frozen”. I.e. the main developers aren’t actively working on it at the moment that much.
January 30th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
I recently tried Dillo in an Openbox installation, and it was pretty buggy. I ended up using a command line browser like links instead.
January 30th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
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January 30th, 2008 at 5:21 pm
The project was mostly dead for a while, but a few months ago in 2007, Jorge released the initial port to FLTK (which was what was holding everything up), and now development has begun again.
January 30th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
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January 30th, 2008 at 8:29 pm
it’s specious to call dillo a “web browser”. i contributed a patch or two a long time ago, and even then it lacked support for so many features that it was seriously limited in what it could do. these days, *nothing* on the web works without support for css or javascript. at best, you can call it an “html renderer” which you can use in your app as an alternative to yelp or something like that. imo they should have dismantled the UI long ago and made it a rendering library instead. as it is, i don’t see why anyone would/should work on it and it’s best forgotten.
January 31st, 2008 at 6:42 am
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January 31st, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Just what we don’t need. Another non-compliant web browser.
The engine could be useful for embedding in apps that need only basic strict mode rendering with none of the fluff (e.g., notes, chat client) but as a web developer I dread the promotion of so-called web browsers like this.
January 31st, 2008 at 10:04 pm
If you’re interested in low-footprint web browsers, then try NetSurf (http://netsurf-browser.org/). It’s available in debian and ubuntu as the package “netsurf”: it supports HTML+CSS but not JS and does a substantially better job of rendering the Web than dillo whilst still being low-footprint.
February 7th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
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