Release Dillo - a fast light browser, without javascript

[Exophase]

Javascript itself isn't necessarily slow

I disagree.

 

[sswam]

- ca-certs for https

Neat. Is that a trivial thing to do?


I think both Arora and Qupzilla need those at well (they ask every second about SSL.)

It was easy to do it for Dillo, after I found out how on the dillo-dev list.  I could ask someone about arora and qupzilla too. 

 

[sswam]

Dillo seems to work okay for reading the boards (except no spoilers!).


Let's see if I can make a post with it...


posted from my Open Pandora running Dillo 3.0.3


edit: yes it did work! feels much more responsive than firefox

 

[klapse]

Dillo shows how fast the web could (should) be for everyone. The development of client side scripting was a terrible idea: servers should have gotten the job of handling code - clients should have just rendered pages.


It would have been a better world.

 

[LTStone]

Just used Dillo, WOW man it is fast.

 

[Askarus]

It's fast but the boards is messed up

 

[LTStone]

It's fast but the boards is messed up

Yeah im used to that from using netsurf on the Wiz.

 

[sswam]

My lavishly illustrated guide to porting Dillo is up on Pandora Live blog.

 

[Kumaki]

Do they actually MAKE websites that don't have Java anymore, LOL??

Seriously, this sounds good for stuff like cheking my web-based everything.mail and so on.  I may have to give it a try.  I do not need Firefox for everything.

 

[Exophase]

Javascript, not Java. Very different things.

And unfortunately, not really :/

 

[klapse]

I don't think runtime zooming will be easy to imlement.


Another nice (hard) thing to add would be kinetic scrolling on click and drag.


What is used for pageup/pagedown?


Dillo Korea is Best korea. (sort of)

 

[Zero3K]

Page-Up= B

Page-Down = Space

Btw, you can see more hints/tricks and keyboard shortcuts by going to http://www.dillo.org/dillo3-help.html.

 

[Zero3K]

Its not using the settings in /appdata/dillo3. Instead, its still using the settings in /appdata/dillo3/.dillo. Also, it overwrote the settings I already had. So, it should only copy the settings to /appdata/ when there are none in it.

ok I think I've fixed the FAT32 issue in 3.0.3.3.

It's like making websites for IE...  pls try it Zero3k

It works. Thanks for fixing the mentioned issue.

 

[Zero3K]

Flickering is occurring when doing these things:

1. It occurs when having one tab already open with a site in it, opening another site in a new tab, and going back to the previous tab.

2. It occurs on certain pages when scrolling through them. One such page is a page containing screenshots of a Pokemon Episode which can be found by going to http://www.serebii.net/anime/pictures/bestwishes/780ps3.shtml .

3. It occurs when moving through the contents of/typing in a text box such as the one used to post a reply to this post.

Also, foreign pages aren't displaying correctly (I'm getting squares instead).

 

[sswam]

The development of client side scripting was a terrible idea: servers should have gotten the job of handling code - clients should have just rendered pages.


It would have been a better world.

I would prefer if servers simply provide data in sensible formats (plain text, TSV, key:value records, HTML templates) and the clients assemble the webpages.  This can be done with javascript, or using a different sort of browser.  It would be much more responsive, since no need to download the same HTML boilerplate over and over again.  But maybe I'm just talking about a browser with a template engine in it, not client-side scripting.

 

[sswam]

Flickering is occurring ...

foreign pages aren't displaying correctly

I added these to my "issues tracker" in the first post.

 

[sswam]

fixed the bug where it doesn't unmount the PND / locks up minimenu - on the repo

sorry for too much consecutive posts!  better do something before posting next time...  I'm such a chatterbox.

 

[Zero3K]

1. Also, it would be nice if it could remember the size/state it was last at and open at that the next time it is ran.


2. I managed to fix the majority of the flickering by changing the buffered_drawing option in dillorc to 2.

 

[Zero3K]

I discovered a reproducible crash in it. It crashes when I press up in a drop down box when its list isn't showing.

 

[sswam]

I'm reading the online novel Worm on my Pandora.

I put all the content together in one large HTML file (using my elite scripting skillz) and am reading it in Dillo.

It's a big novel - If I printed Worm it would come to over 4000 pages of A4 (so far).  That's 8 reams!

So anyway, now I know that Dillo works pretty good with large HTML files.

BTW: Worm is a very popular novel