Dillo#Forks

Dillo was originally written in the C programming language with the GTK+ GUI toolkit. The first versions were based on an earlier browser called Armadillo, hence the name.{{cite web|url=http://sourceforge.net/p/dillo/mailman/message/4410836/|title=Home page (ASCII version)|author=Arellano Cid, Jorge|publisher=SourceForge.net|date=31 December 1999|access-date=21 April 2009}}

Dillo is funded by private donations;{{cite web

|url=http://www.dillo.org/donations.html

|title=Dillo Web Browser :: Donations

|publisher=University of Bremen

|date=14 October 2008

|access-date=13 February 2009

}} efforts to obtain public grants and corporate sponsors have been unsuccessful.{{cite web

|url = http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6109819427.html

|title = Embeddable browser project hits milestone release, seeks funding

|publisher = LinuxDevices.org

|date = 19 February 2004

|access-date = 13 February 2009

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090216082242/http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6109819427.html

|archive-date = 16 February 2009

}} Lack of funding led to a slowdown in development in 2006, and a complete stop in 2007.{{cite web

|url=http://www.dillo.org/8years.html

|title=Dillo is eight years old!

|author=Arellano Cid, Jorge

|date=August 2008

|access-date=12 February 2009

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220002512/http://www.dillo.org/8years.html

|archive-date=2012-02-20

}} The project restarted again in 2008 and two months later received a €115 donation from DistroWatch.{{cite web

|url=http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20081201#donation

|title=DistroWatch.com News

|last=Martin

|first=Caitlyn

|work=DistroWatch Weekly

|date=1 December 2008

|access-date=13 February 2009

}}

Dillo 2 was written with both C and C++ components and the Fast Light Toolkit (FLTK), and was released on October 14, 2008. Text antialiasing, support for character sets other than Latin-1, HTTP compression capability, and improved page rendering were all added. The move to FLTK from GTK+ also removed many of the project's dependencies and reduced Dillo's memory footprint by 50%.

In 2011, Dillo 3.x was released, now using FLTK 1.3. According to the changelog, this change was partly driven by the absence of an official FLTK 2 release, which had previously prevented Dillo 2 from being included in lightweight distributions where it would have otherwise been suitable.

Development stalled in 2016 due to the death of the main developer of the rendering engine, Sebastian Geerken. Arellano Cid made his last post to the development mailing list in 2019.{{cite news |last=Proven |first=Liam |date=7 May 2024 |title=Lightweight Dillo browser springs back to life, still doesn't care about JavaScript |url=https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/07/dillo_browser_v3_1/ |work=The Register |publisher=Situation Publishing |access-date=4 June 2025}}{{cite news |last=Posch |first=Maya |date=11 May 2024 |title=The Minimalistic Dillo Web Browser Is Back |url=https://hackaday.com/2024/05/11/the-minimalistic-dillo-web-browser-is-back/ |work=Hackaday |access-date=4 June 2025}}

The original{{cite web | url=https://www.dillo.org/ | title=Dillo Web Browser :: Home Page | archive-date=2022-05-18 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518060405/https://www.dillo.org/ | url-status=dead }} domain had expired in June 2022.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dillo.org/|title=Dillo.org|archive-date=2022-06-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220602023156/https://www.dillo.org/|url-status=dead}} Developers had lost access to it and a Wordpress zombie lookalike is operating without their oversight ever since.

Dillo 3.1.x was released in 2024, after development was restarted in December 2023 by Rodrigo Arias Mallo.{{cite news |last=Nestor |first=Marius |date=6 May 2024 |title=Dillo 3.1 Open-Source Web Browser Released After 9-Year Hiatus |url=https://9to5linux.com/dillo-3-1-open-source-web-browser-released-after-9-year-hiatus |work=9to5Linux |access-date=4 June 2025}}

Features of Dillo include bookmarks, tabbed browsing, and support for JPEG, PNG (including alpha transparency{{cite web

|url=http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngapbr.html

|title=PNG-supporting Browsers

|last=Roelofs

|first=Greg

|publisher=SourceForge

|date=17 May 2008

|access-date=13 February 2009

}}), GIF{{cite web

|url = http://linuxgazette.net/issue79/arndt.html

|title = Dillo--a Web Browser as Fast as Lightning

|last = Arndt

|first = Matthias

|date = June 2002

|access-date = 13 February 2009

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090215090123/http://linuxgazette.net/issue79/arndt.html

|archive-date = 15 February 2009

}} and SVG images.{{cite web |author= |date=2025-01-18 |title=Dillo release 3.2.0 |url=https://dillo-browser.github.io/release/3.2.0/ |website=Dillo Website |access-date=4 June 2025}} Partial support for CSS was introduced in release 2.1. Settings such as the default fonts, background color, downloads folder, and home page are customizable through configuration files.{{cite web

|url=http://www.linux.com/feature/151983

|title=Dillo 2.0 is fast, but limited

|last=Byfield

|first=Bruce

|publisher=Linux.com

|date=5 November 2008

|access-date=13 February 2009

}}{{cite web

|url=http://www.dillo.org/dillorc

|title=Sample dillo initialization file

|publisher=University of Bremen

|access-date=13 February 2009

|archive-date=26 December 2017

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226160220/https://www.dillo.org/dillorc

|url-status=dead

}} Cookies are supported but disabled by default due to privacy concerns.{{cite web

|url=http://www.dillo.org/FAQ.html#q8

|title=Q: How do I enable cookies?

|work=Dillo Web Browser :: Frequently Asked Questions

|publisher=University of Bremen

|date=15 January 2009

|access-date=11 February 2009

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509062517/http://www.dillo.org/FAQ.html#q8

|archive-date=9 May 2008

|url-status=dead

}} While most web browsers retain the web cache and history after the program is closed, Dillo automatically clears them to improve both privacy and performance.{{cite web

|url=http://www.dillo.org/funding/advantages.html

|title=Dillo Web Browser :: Funding Presentation :: Advantages

|publisher=University of Bremen

|access-date=13 February 2009

}}

Image:Dillo's bug meter on www.nasa.gov.png

A developer tool called the "bug meter" is provided in the lower-right corner. When clicked, it displays information about validation problems, such as unclosed tags, that Dillo found in the web page.{{cite web

|url=http://www.dillo.org/help/bug_meter.html

|title=Dillo Web Browser :: About Dillo's Bug Meter

|publisher=University of Bremen

|access-date=13 February 2009

}} Unlike most browsers, Dillo does not have a quirks mode to improve compatibility with web pages that use invalid HTML. Instead, Dillo processes all web pages according to the published web standards.{{cite web

|url=http://www.dillo.org/FAQ.html#q7

|title=Why do some pages look strange?

|work=Dillo Web Browser :: Frequently Asked Questions

|publisher=University of Bremen

|date=15 January 2009

|access-date=11 February 2009

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509062517/http://www.dillo.org/FAQ.html#q7

|archive-date=9 May 2008

|url-status=dead

}}

In 2003, two Linux enthusiasts successfully ran Dillo on an Intel 486 processor and demonstrated that even with such meager hardware, Dillo could render [http://news.bbc.co.uk/ Home - BBC News] in 10–15 seconds.{{cite web

|url=http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/486.html

|title=Dam(sic) Small Linux on retro hardware -- 486SX and 486DX2

|publisher=John Andrews

|date=19 October 2003

|access-date=24 May 2009

}} Furthermore, Dillo can run on a variety of software platforms, including Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X, DOS,[https://code.google.com/p/nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos/downloads/list Downloads - nanox-microwindows-nxlib-fltk-for-dos - This project ports the Nano-X, Microwindows, NXlib and FLTK 1.3.0 libraries to the DOS operating system using DJGPP - Google Project Hosting]. Code.google.com. Retrieved on 2013-12-09. and some handheld devices. However, Dillo's developers have made little effort to make the browser work on Microsoft Windows. Arellano Cid stated that Windows goes against Dillo's goal of democratization by artificially increasing hardware requirements and software costs.{{cite web

|url=http://www.tux.cl/ver_entrevista.php?id=06#s8

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030413045914/http://www.tux.cl/ver_entrevista.php?id=06#s8

|title=El hecho de que Dillo este programado en C hace que sea portable a otros sistemas operativos, debería Windows ser su objetivo principal, ya que la "democratización de internet" tendría más impacto debido a la cantidad de usuarios de este s.o.?

|author=Arellano Cid, Jorge

|publisher=tux.cl

|language=es

|date=December 2002

|archive-date=13 April 2003

|access-date=13 February 2009

}} [http://www.dillo.org/interview.html English translation] available. Nevertheless, Dillo has been reported to work on Windows via Cygwin.{{cite web

|url=http://www.hyperborea.org/software/dillo/cygwin.html

|title=Installing Dillo on Cygwin

|last=Vibber

|first=Kelson

|date=13 October 2008

|access-date=13 February 2009

|archive-date=4 June 2011

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604040758/http://www.hyperborea.org/software/dillo/cygwin.html

|url-status=dead

}}

Dillo does not support JavaScript, Java, Flash, right-to-left text, or complex text layout.{{cite web

|url=http://www.dillo.org/FAQ.html#q1

|title=Q: Internationalization and Localization (i18n & l10n)

|work=Dillo Web Browser :: Frequently Asked Questions

|publisher=University of Bremen

|date=15 January 2009

|access-date=12 February 2009

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509062517/http://www.dillo.org/FAQ.html#q1

|archive-date=9 May 2008

|url-status=dead

}} Support for frames is also very limited; Dillo presents a link to each frame to allow the user to view them one at a time.{{cite web

|url=http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5847

|title=Dillo, the GTK Web Browser

|last=Krause

|first=Ralph

|publisher=Linux Journal

|date=26 February 2002

|access-date=13 February 2009

}}

[http://dillo-win32.sourceforge.net/dillo/ Dillo-Win32] was a project to port Dillo to Windows which is now defunct.{{cite web

|url = http://dillo-win32.sourceforge.net/dillo/status.php

|title = Project Status

|publisher = Dillo-Win32

|date = 5 December 2011

|access-date = 1 January 2012

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120315210553/http://dillo-win32.sourceforge.net/dillo/status.php

|archive-date = 15 March 2012

}}

D+ browser or Dplus continues where Dillo-Win32 left off, forked from the final Dillo-Win32 release (3.0p9), it does not attempt to maintain upstream compatibility with Dillo. The most recent version is 0.5b (Oct 15, 2013).

{{cite web

|url=http://dplus-browser.sourceforge.net/

|title=Official D+ Browser page

|access-date=5 December 2013

}}

[https://github.com/w00fpack/dilloNG DilloNG] is a fork hosted on GitHub which moved the code from Mercurial while adding new features like a speed dial main page, support for opening videos in an external video player{{cite web |url=https://github.com/w00fpack/dilloNG?tab=readme-ov-file#browser-features |title=README - w00fpack/dilloNG|website=GitHub }} and merged some previously published fixes. It was last updated in 2021.{{cite web |url=https://github.com/w00fpack/dilloNG/commits |title=Commits - w00fpack/dilloNG|website=GitHub }}

A fork called Dillo-browser{{cite web |url=https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/ |title=Dillo, a multi-platform graphical web browser|website=GitHub }} appeared in 2019 forked from the then-current version of DilloNG. It stalled until 2023 when its development resumed and is ongoing as of 2024.

Dillo+ ([https://github.com/crossbowerbt/dillo-plus Dillo-Plus]) started in 2023 based on Dillo 3.0.5 source code found in the OpenBSD 6.8 package.{{cite web |url=https://github.com/crossbowerbt/dillo-plus/commit/b1cfeb1e36c24de76976341e4ed5cfe7634f9e00 |title=Working base from OpenBSD 6.8 pkg, switched from autotools to plain Makefiles|website=GitHub }} It had applied numerous patches from DilloNG and added support for rendering Gopher, Gemini and markdown pages, reader mode and extended CSS support.See [https://github.com/crossbowerbt/dillo-plus/blob/main/src/cssparser.cc] for coverage A new Python scripting system was introduced with modules for rendering RSS, EPUB, public Telegram channel logs and zip file contents.{{cite web | url=https://github.com/crossbowerbt/dillo-plus#user-content-dls-scripts | title=Overview | website=GitHub }} It is still maintained as of 2024.{{cite web |url=https://github.com/crossbowerbt/dillo-plus/commits |title=Commits - crossbowerbt/dillo-plus|website=GitHub }}

Reviews of Dillo have praised its extraordinary speed, but noted that this speed comes at a price.{{cite web

|url = http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6922044112.html

|title = Lightweight, Linux-compatible browser evolves

|last = Kingman

|first = Henry

|publisher = DesktopLinux.com

|date = 16 October 2008

|access-date = 13 February 2009

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090214230717/http://desktoplinux.com/news/NS6922044112.html

|archive-date = 14 February 2009

}}{{cite web

|url=http://www.mlug.ca/static/35.htm

|title=Linux Web Surfing - Get Armed with Dillo

|last=Tatham

|first=Paul

|date=15 September 2002

|access-date=13 February 2009

|archive-date=3 March 2016

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303171507/http://www.mlug.ca/static/35.htm

|url-status=dead

}} The most visible cost is Dillo's inability to display complex web pages as they were meant to be. A 2008 review by Linux.com commented that Dillo's user interface may be "intimidating" for new users, and pointed out the scarcity of plug-ins for Dillo. In all, Dillo's global usage share is less than one hundredth of one percent.{{cite web

|url=http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=0

|title=Browser Market Share

|publisher=Net Applications

|date=January 2009

|access-date=12 February 2009

}}

Dillo is, however, the browser of choice in several space-conscious Linux distributions, such as Damn Small Linux,{{cite web

|url=http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/applications.html

|title=Damn Small Linux, Featured Desktop applications

|publisher=John Andrews

|access-date=11 February 2009

}} Feather Linux,{{cite web

|url = http://featherlinux.berlios.de/about.htm

|title = Feather Linux - About

|publisher = BerliOS

|access-date = 11 February 2009

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090127052745/http://featherlinux.berlios.de/about.htm

|archive-date = 27 January 2009

}} VectorLinux,{{cite web

|url = http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9866429696.html

|title = Lesser known "mini" Linux runs from RAM

|publisher = DesktopLinux.com

|date = 25 January 2007

|access-date = 13 February 2009

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090215050645/http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9866429696.html

|archive-date = 15 February 2009

}} antiX and Mustang Linux.

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