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| From | Eric Radman |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | What about the Dillo browser? |
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| Date | 5 June 2006 00:19 |
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I liked your post on "What people us to view web pages", but in your
list of web browsers you actually left out the one that I use on my Sun
SparcStation 20:
http://www.dillo.org/
It's very fast, and runs well on a 32-bit, 75MHz machine. It doesn't
support CSS or SSL, but it gets the job done most of the time. I do
sometimes have to use rdesktop to pull up a remote Windows session so I
can access IE-only sites.
Thanks for your post.
Eric Radman
| From | Me |
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| To | Eric Radman |
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| Subject | Re: What about the Dillo browser? |
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| Date | 5 June 2006 11:38 |
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Eric,
> Dillo
The list is not intended to be exhaustive, and there are several limited
capability browsers that are not listed, such as OpenWave, OffByOne, and
Dillo. You choose to use a limited capability browser, in full knowledge
that several parts of the Web will not work for you.
My list is intended to educate authors that there are browsers that other
people use, where their own limited options make them use it, or the
browser's own qualities and capabilities are why they use it. It is better
that they learn that there are much lower capability browsers such as lynx
that are in use. By catering for browsers with that capability, they will
include your browser and all the others like it, without even knowing it.
I could try listing all the browsers (such as those on browsers.evolt.org),
but that would not really help convince developers to cater for low spec
browsers. They would just see too much text, and stop reading. I already
have too much, imho :(
Still, perhaps Dillo is important enough for me to mention - I will think it
over :)
> It's very fast
Not really :)
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/browserSpeed.html
It may be fast to start up, but full blown browsers like Opera are faster
for most other tasks, and they have far higher capabilities. (Admittedly,
the tests were done on a machine that was an order of magnitude faster than
yours.) If you want a limited browser for speed, then Links 2 is faster. (Or
of course, you could use Opera, and disable CSS and JavaScript.)
Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jones - author of http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/
| From | Eric Radman |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Re: What about the Dillo browser? |
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| Date | 5 June 2006 16:48 |
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I use Links on my laptop, but can't on my Sun because Links ONLY works
with 24-bit color displays. Most applications don't care if X is running
in 8-bit color, but for some reason Links trashes the palette. :-( I'll
have to check to see if Opera still distributes a Sparc port.
[Ed. Yes. http://www.opera.com/download/ ]
Thanks,
Eric Radman