Dillo
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| Dillo | |
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 Dillo 0.8.4 showing Wikipedia |
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| Developed by | ? |
| Initial release | December 1999 |
| Stable release | 0.8.6 (April 26, 2006) [+/−] |
| Preview release | none (n/a) [+/−] |
| Written in | C |
| OS | Unix, Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows |
| Available in | ? |
| Genre | Web browser |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | dillo.org |
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 December 2006, the current version is 0.8.6. 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.
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[edit] Features
Dillo, as of release 0.8.6, has no support for CSS, JavaScript, Java, or character encoding beyond Latin-1. Support for frames is very limited: Dillo makes each frame a link, then shows the NOFRAMES portion of the page in question. There is 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 has become quite complete and mature but was 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 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.
[edit] See also
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[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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