Notices by Dillo browser (dillo@fosstodon.org)

Not sure if we need to say this but... No, we won't put LLM or any other AI bullshit in the browser.

Fetch a document. Read a document. That's it.

@gettie I currently use brutaldon with some CSS fixes, see:

https://gitlab.com/brutaldon/brutaldon/-/merge_requests/18

@byte @silverfish thanks for the heads up. I'm evaluating self-hosting with snac2 so I can use Dillo directly to load the frontend, but it would take a while.

In the short term you can use RSS: https://fosstodon.org/@dillo.rss

There is no electricity in #Spain today. And yes, I’m sure I don’t need your 15 MiB JS crap to overload the cell tower in order to read the text-based news.

Playing multimedia with #Dillo.

Here is a new article on how to play and queue #YouTube videos or #Bandcamp albums in #mpv from Dillo.

https://dillo-browser.github.io/topic/playing-multimedia/

@kaimac yes, the whole The Guardian page is broken in the same way. I reported a while back and their suggestion was: have you tried using Google Chrome?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@internetarchive when loading a collection page on Dillo, which doesn't support JS, the redirect to ?noscript=true is inside the body not in the head:

https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead

You may also want to include an hyperlink in the body.

However, when manually followed, it returns a 404 error:

https://archive.org/details/GratefulDead?noscript=true

The same happens for most other pages:

https://archive.org/?noscript=true

https://archive.org/search?query=grateful+dead&noscript=true

Do you plan on keeping the support on browsers without JS?

New #Dillo plugin to display GNU Info pages available here: https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo-plugin-info

References are easy to follow by clicking on the hyperlink to other info: pages.

#Dillo 3.1.0 is now available in the repositories of Arch Linux, Alpine, Fedora, FreeBSD Ports, Homebrew, Majeia, Manjaro, Nixpkgs, NetBSD (pkgsrc), OpenBSD Ports, OpenMandriva and Void Linux.

Still waiting for Debian (and derived distros) to catch up.

Thanks to all volunteers who helped updating to the new version :blobcathug:

After some fixes, #Dillo also builds and runs on Solaris 10 (released in 2005 and still maintained!).

See more pictures in the gallery: https://dillo-browser.github.io/gallery/

Source: https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/pull/353#issuecomment-2643718976

@mms there is one Dillo release per floppy. The idea is to restrict ourselves to keep the codebase fit in 1.44 MB.

See you at #FOSDEM this Sunday at 16:10. I'll carry some floppy disks with the latest #Dillo 3.2.0 release.

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4100-resurrecting-the-minimalistic-dillo-web-browser/

@nichlas I know these two:

https://mataroa.blog/
https://bearblog.dev/

But I often use just an editor and write HTML directly. It helps keeping it simple.

"The median page weight for a desktop page, as measured in October 2024 is 2,652 KB", we could fit two #Dillo releases there!

https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/page-weight#fig-15

Amazing yearly report on the state of the #Web by the HTTP Archive, check it out:

https://almanac.httparchive.org/en/2024/table-of-contents

#Dillo version 3.2.0 released! 🎉

https://dillo-browser.github.io/release/3.2.0

#Google is now banning #Dillo user agent via a JS wall. Other user agents still work for now (http_user_agent option in dillorc).

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42719865

#Dillo 3.2.0-rc1 released.

If no more problems appear, the stable release will follow soon.

https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/releases/tag/v3.2.0-rc1

Not all heroes wear capes.

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=291177

Tell me again why I cannot edit a page from the browser itself using HTTP PUT (like a wiki).

https://techno-barje.fr/post/2023/10/20/history-of-edition-and-publishing-in-web-browsers/

New #Dillo plugin to add reader mode support with rdrview.

https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo-plugin-rdrview