Notices by Dillo browser (dillo@fosstodon.org)

#FLTK 1.4.0 has been released! 🥳

Among the long list of improvements, it includes proper support for High DPI displays which would improve how #Dillo renders websites across different screens.

It would take some time to port Dillo to FLTK 1.4.0, but it is worth the effort.

https://www.fltk.org/articles.php?L1955

https://github.com/fltk/fltk/blob/master/CHANGES.txt

Testing experimental CSS var() support on #dillo with some websites.

Testing a new mechanism to inject CSS fixes per site, so we can make pages more readable in #Dillo.

Here is an example for #Marginalia.

@anthk check https://github.com/shugaa/florb/pull/5

It looks abandoned, you may want to adopt it :-)

@ajroach42 that looks like 3.0.5, which is a decade old. See:

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

(I've dissasembled my keyboard to fix it, expect slow reply)

@ajroach42 the wayback machine should (otherwise, please report):

https://web.archive.org/web/20200510085048/https://www.dillo.org/

Also, may want to read: https://dillo-browser.github.io/dillo.org.html

@ajroach42 nice, hopefully IA can fully recover and work again soon.

Testing plugin for GNU Info pages.

@antijingoist @pkotrcka there is quite a lot you can do without JS. Other tasks can be done with specific software.

For example, instead of loading youtube videos on the web, they can be opened by mpv¹ with a fraction of the resource usage.

I'm also testing florb² for maps. It loads the map before the enter key returns when invoked from the command line and uses 25MiB of resident memory.

¹: https://mpv.io/
²: http://florb.shugaa.de/

#Question: Is there any bank that can be operated from a web browser without JavaScript? Are they _all_ extinct?

#AskFedi #Dillo #JavaScript

"A simple glider of the monoplane type can be easily constructed in a small workshop."

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/44585/pg44585-images.html#Page_115

#Dillo #Workshop

Isn't it pretty?

#Dillo #Glitch #Art

New #Dillo plugin to sync bookmarks with #Firefox Sync.

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

It uses the ffsclient tool to access Firefox Sync data: https://github.com/Mikescher/firefox-sync-client

@lepeter not yet :-)

The floppy size limit is to prevent the browser code from becoming too complex.

This forces us to offload extra functionallity to plugins, which is the intended effect.

@Otyugh yes I tested it a bit some time ago. The user:pass method is not implemented and deprecated by RFC-3986 in section 3.2.1:

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3986#section-3.2.1

Looking at snac2 source it looks they use Basic HTTP Auth, so Dillo should prompt you the user/pass once per process.

@grunfink would it be posible to use cookies to store a login token?, otherwise the password will end up stored in plain text.

Found some old floppies from around 1997, let's see if they still work. It says "Lifetime Warranty *".

IMPORTANT NOTICE ⚠️

(Boosts appreciated)

The #Dillo package for #Debian will be removed from the repositories in two weeks.

https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/issues/230

The current maintainer seems to be unable to continue taking care of it, and I'm not familiar with Debian packages to maintain it myself.

Is there a Debian maintainer who could help us by adopting it? We already have a working package:

https://salsa.debian.org/debian/dillo/-/merge_requests/1

@alcinnz @nina_kali_nina @kirtai there is definitely room for improvement in Dillo regarding accessibility.

New version 3.1.1 of #Dillo browser released.

https://dillo-browser.github.io/release/3.1.1/

@lanodan @drewdevault didn't knew that about Windows too, but I woudn't be surprised.

In any case our interest to cover older versions from 5 to 20 years back more or less. I'm also considering if we could try targeting ReactOS or Wine, but I don't think we could guarantee it would work on Windows anyway. Similarly with Darling for macOS.

A computer that can run a new Windows or macOS version is already powerful enough to run mainstream browsers.