DOS ain't dead - New release of the Dillo browser for DOS

New release of the Dillo browser for DOS (Announce)

posted by DOS386, 27.03.2013, 07:07
(edited by DOS386 on 27.03.2013, 07:30)

> I finished a new version of the Dillo browser for DOS! It is based on
> version 3.0.2 of the Dillo browser and features SSL support now.

"DILLODOS-302b.zip" 3'931'680

"dillo.exe" 2'496'116 2013-03-17 16:03

Thank you :-)

+ It works + Can login into SF (but can't do anything ... AFAIK the very same problem occurs in Fire-Fox with Jawa-Shit OFF too ... blame BrokenForge admins, not Georg) + Can edit Wipkipedia (but it's getting reverted ... blame the Wipkipedia censors, not Georg) + Can access HTTPS/SSL encrypted pages (but certs are NOT checked ... RTFM ... same as in DOSLynx ... don't use DOS Dillo to move around billions of your dirty bucks using onlike banking) + Few really hard hangers, freezers, and crashes + HTML BUG checking (see shot) + User Agent Editor (untested) + Referee control (untested) + Few dependencies (could get further reduced) - Mouse wheel doesn't work (RTFM ...) - Ugly beeping on BUG-free HTML (see shot) - Editor extremely slow on large texts (several 10 KiB) ... like many other editors - Editor crashes / exits on CTL-C and CTL-X (CRITICAL BUG) - Page layout broken on many pages (same problem as with Arachne and many other browsers, including old versions of Fire-Fox) - TFM is in PDF format. Support for PDF in DOS is nowadays less bad than it used to be, still, an additonal good-old TXT file would be nice. - Manual compares Dillo with IE worm, please remove it (say "compared to mainstream browsers like Fire-Fox or Opera" instead) - Purpose of various files inside the package is not fully documented, most notably "vcls.exe" (why should I use it ?) - TFM says "ALT-F" ("<alt>f = file-menu") doesn't work, what's missing ? - History, Cookies and Cache (formerly "Temporary Internet Files", note the cool spaces in the name) management is not documented - Seems to hang while waiting for answer from server, please display something useful ("waiting for answer" + running clock for example) - After restarting Dillo, it does no longer work (networking hangs), have to kick "W32DHCP.TMP" file (have same problem in other Water-Loo -TCP-based browsers except Arachne too, related to my Ethernet card + packet driver ???) - Address field gets emptied when changing the screen layout - ZIP includes useless ".BAK" files - Lowercase filenames in the ZIP (but not too long, un-ZIP's happily ...) - File "WATTCP.CFG" is bloated and full of junk, please remove stuff having no relevance for DOS Dillo, and make DHCP the default (TFM says it would be ... but isn't ... or what do the most users need ?) - Why "dillo.exe" started using "DILLO.BAT" (YES this is much worse with Arachne and Lynx ...) ? Couldn't be "NANOSCR" merged into "dillorc" and named "DOSDILLO.CFG" finally ? - Hardcoded absolute pathes, "WATTCP.CFG", "W32DHCP.TMP", "seedfile.dat" and all other files should be in the same directory as "dillo.exe" unless environ variable tells something else - Inconsistent naming and placing of those files ("bm.txt", "dillorc"), suggestion to fix: use ".CFG" for read-only files ("WATTCP.CFG"), and ".INI" for files also written by Dillo ("W32DHCP.INI", cookies "DILCOOKS.INI", bookmarks "DILBOOKM.INI", browsing history "DILBRHIS.INI", DILRSEED.INI", ...) - Minor screen actifacts (temporary or permanent, see shot top and bottom line) - No screenshot feature (but SNARF seems to work, TFM even suggests it) ? Untested: download + upload HTTP + FTP ? Untested: PNG transparency (hello IE5 and IE6), APNG, MNG, WeBP, video (Theora + WeBM)

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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
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  - 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