Dillo progress
10 Apr 09 at 21:54 | 
browser, gentoo
For users of older hardware and fans of light-weight systems, Dillo is probably not an unknown name. It’s a very light-weight web browser. That comes with its limitations, of course. It used to have a GTK1 GUI, which no one in his right mind would use anymore today. But last year Dillo 2.0 was released, which was reimplemented using FLTK2. This sports modern features like anti-aliasing (smooth fonts) and unicode
Currently the Dillo developers are working on exciting new features, such as basic CSS and JavaScript support. I figured some people may want to try out this new code, so I added an ebuild for the “live” development version to portage today (or yesterday, depending on your timezone). There is definitely some progress to see, so this little browser may grow in popularity again. And they manage to keep it small. The binary is only 629K on my amd64 system.
