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New release of the Dillo browser for DOS (Announce)

posted by RayeR , CZ, 25.03.2013, 00:11

Hi, I just tested your new Dillo release and I'm quite satisfied with it. I discovered that strange text color rendering problem occured only in 16bpp mode - maybe some bug in color downscaling (original textcolor is 240, 240, 240 and dillo render it as 240, 24, 128). When I switched to 32bpp it renders OK. I used 16bpp because it's little bit faster but not so serious I can use it well too.
* Czech fonts render OK.
* Local file open dialog (and setting local file as homepage) works fine.
* Dillo still creates "/etc/fltk/fltk.org" directory in rootdir of drive where it's installed. I used hexaeditor to patch dillo.exe where I replaced "/etc/" by "./etc/" (cut the end of string) and now it create etc in dillo directory.
* It seems to be quite stable, renders even complex webs an I got only one crash when downloading a file from FTP and pressed cancel button. Download window closed and followed by immediate crash. But it didn't happened when I tried again.
* Download speed is significantly slower than from windows/linux - I DL from ftp.debian.org and got only 50-60kB/s. I suspect it maybe slowed down by updating the progress bar too often. Maybe you should place some limitation there to update it only about 5-10 times per second.
* Is there a possibility to inc./dec. font size?
* Is there a possibility to enable background images on webpage?
* Mouse wheel suppor would be very valuable.
* Aslo would be nice to make possible middle mouse button to open links as tabs and close tabs by mid-click on tab bar.

Thanks for your effort!

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Complete thread:

• New release of the Dillo browser for DOS - georgpotthast, 17.03.2013, 18:23 (Announce)
  • New release of the Dillo browser for DOS - glennmcc, 17.03.2013, 23:41
    • New release of the Dillo browser for DOS - ron, 18.03.2013, 00:56
      • New release of the Dillo browser for DOS - georgpotthast, 18.03.2013, 08:23
  • New release of the Dillo browser for DOS - Japheth, 18.03.2013, 11:35
    • New release of the Dillo browser for DOS - ron, 18.03.2013, 12:56
      • New release of the Dillo browser for DOS - Japheth, 18.03.2013, 14:13
        • New release of the Dillo browser for DOS - georgpotthast, 18.03.2013, 17:58
  • New release of the Dillo browser for DOS - Laaca, 18.03.2013, 13:15
    • New release of the Dillo browser for DOS - georgpotthast, 20.03.2013, 16:47
  • New release of the Dillo browser for DOS - Wengier, 18.03.2013, 20:35
    • New release of the Dillo browser for DOS - georgpotthast, 18.03.2013, 21:36
  • New release of the Dillo browser for DOS - RayeR, 25.03.2013, 00:11
    • New release of the Dillo browser for DOS - georgpotthast, 25.03.2013, 22:00
  • New release of the Dillo browser for DOS - DOS386, 27.03.2013, 07:07
    • New release of the Dillo browser for DOS (SHOT) - DOS386, 27.03.2013, 07:11
    • New release of the Dillo browser for DOS - georgpotthast, 29.03.2013, 08:45
      • New release of the Dillo browser for DOS - DOS386, 29.03.2013, 09:54
        • New release of the Dillo browser for DOS - georgpotthast, 29.03.2013, 12:19
          • New release of the Dillo browser for DOS - DOS386, 04.04.2013, 04:53
      • New release of the Dillo browser for DOS - RayeR, 29.03.2013, 12:47