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Dillo - now a graphical web browser for DOS (Announce)

posted by obeythepenguin Homepage, United States, 26.11.2011, 03:32

This is Benjamin Johnson (the Dillo-Win32 developer). I just wanted to mention I have a new build up based on the latest Windows version; you can get it here:

http://dillo-win32.sourceforge.net/DOS/dil30p8b.zip

This build should fix downloads, local files, and most of the other current issues. Dillo's own files all use SFN-safe names, though downloads can use long filenames if they're available. If you see any new issues, of course, please let me know!

While I'm at it, I'll try to respond to some of the points in this thread:

> Two points....
>
> Can't seem to figure-out how to change font sizes.
There's currently no user interface for that, though as others have mentioned you can set font_factor manually in your dillorc.

(Both FLTK and Dillo have made a mess of font handling, which is why there's currently no option. I've been meaning to fix that in some future release.)

> Can't seem to figure-out how to view any local files such-as....
>
> file:///c:/html/somefile.htm
I've added long-overdue file:/ protocol support to the latest build. Now it should work with both standard DOS paths and file:/ URLs.

> BTW why my homepage is displayed with this strange textcolor?
That looks like a bug in either FLTK or the Nano-X display driver; it's not a problem with Dillo itself. I've noticed similar behavior on several other sites.

> Downloads (using wget) would make Dillo even better, but that is the only
> major improvement of consequence. :)
Downloads should work in the current version.

> > Dillo currently does not support extended characters.
>
> Apparently extended characters are supported. I saw screenshots of Dillo
> from the official website containing Chinese and Cyrillic characters, e.g.
> http://www.dillo.org/screenshots/http_lang.png
Dillo does support extended characters, as does FLTK. It appears that Nano-X does not, which is why extended characters don't render correctly.

(FLTK for DOS uses the same source code as the X11 version; you can build FLTK and Dillo from the same source code on Unix, and extended characters will work. That's why I suspect it's a Nano-X bug.)

> What about a built-in screenshot feature ?
You might ask Georg about adding that to Nano-X. I don't anticipate adding a screenshot feature to Dillo itself, since I'd like to avoid platform-specific features, and Dillo does not have (or need) a screenshot feature on other platforms.

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