Dillo

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Dillo is a small (~350 kB), minimalistic multi-platform web browser.

It is particularly suitable for older or smaller computers and embedded systems. In addition to its small size, Dillo is highly secure — cookies are disabled by default, for instance^[1]. Dillo is available for most POSIX-compliant Unix platforms, including Linux, BSD, Solaris and Mac OS X. As of October 2008, the current version is Dillo 2. Due to its small size Dillo is also the browser of choice for many space-conscious Linux distributions including Damn Small Linux and Feather Linux.

Dillo was first released in December 1999. It is written in the C programming language using the GTK+ and FLTK graphical toolkits. Released under the GNU General Public License, Dillo is free software.

Contents 1 Features 2 Development 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Features

Dillo 2 has many of the features that eariler versions could get through patches. Tabs and antialiasing of text, along with support for different character sets, and the ability to accept compressed pages were all added. The move to FLTK from GTK also removed many of the project's dependencies, and made Dillo 2 50% lighter than Dillo 0.8.4. The version also fixed bugs in earlier versions and improved the table rendering. Dillo 2 still has limited or no support for CSS, JavaScript, Java. Support for frames is also very limited: Dillo makes each frame a link, then shows the NOFRAMES portion of the page in question.

Earlier versions had no support for character encoding beyond Latin-1. Version 0.8.4 had no support for tabs and encoding selection in official releases, but these features are available in third-party patches. Third-party patches also exist to support antialiasing of text and non-Latin characters.

Currently, development efforts are focused not on adding more features, but in finishing porting Dillo from the GTK+ toolkit to the FLTK 2 graphics toolkit, improving the prototypical support for SSL, and in general improving the framework which allows plugins to be easily written and included (as in Firefox).

[edit] Development

The FLTK 2 port had become quite complete and mature but had not been publicly released for years due to lack of funding which is necessary for further Dillo development. According to main developer, Jorge Arellano Cid, there is not enough support from companies which are using Dillo in their products, such as in embedded systems. Jorge claimed that Dillo will not be released without more support from companies. On 30 September 2007, tarballs of alpha-quality Dillo builds based on FLTK were released by Cid. On 14 August, 2008, Dillo 2 was released.

On 30 August 2006 there was an effort to find corporate funders.^[2]

On 25 February 2007 the project was declared frozen until funding or new developers appeared.

On 18 August, 2008, the Dillo website stated that the first FLTK2-based release would be available in late September or early October 2008.

On 14 October, 2008, Dillo 2 was released.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Dillo homepage
• Windows port for Dillo
• Dillo internationalisation(i18n) patches These third-party patches add support for frames, tabs, and other features to Dillo.

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