DOS ain't dead

Thank you Georg... she works great !! :)

> 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.
>
> It can be downloaded here:
>
> Dillo
> for DOS version 302b
>
> This are the new features:
>
> - SSL support
> - FTP file transfer support
> - printing web pages to postscript files
> - improved open file dialogs
> - faster downloads of files
> - separate directory for downloaded files
>
> Please take a look at the updated USRGuide.pdf which will answer many
> questions you may have.
>
> Georg

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Thanks!

> This are the new features:
>
> - SSL support
> - FTP file transfer support
> - printing web pages to postscript files
> - improved open file dialogs
> - faster downloads of files
> - separate directory for downloaded files

It's probably worth to be mentioned that dillo is now able to render local files. AFAIK this didn't work in the previous version.

Suggestion: if a local file is to be displayed, don't emit the warning that no packet driver has been found - or, if this isn't feasible, add an option to suppress this warning.

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Thanks a lot, Georg!
This new version is much more stable than the previous one.

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Thanks!

Hope it will support printing to Postscript (and perhaps other) printers as well, in addition to the print-to-file feature.


> 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.
>
> It can be downloaded here:
>
> Dillo
> for DOS version 302b
>
> This are the new features:
>
> - SSL support
> - FTP file transfer support
> - printing web pages to postscript files
> - improved open file dialogs
> - faster downloads of files
> - separate directory for downloaded files
>
> Please take a look at the updated USRGuide.pdf which will answer many
> questions you may have.
>
> Georg

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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> 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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