Esta es una entrevista que di para tux.cl a fines del 2002. Es interesante que todavía (2009) los tópicos tratados mantienen su relevancia original.   –Jorge ¿Básicamente, de que se trata el proyecto Dillo? Los objetivosdel proyecto son: La democratización del acceso a la información de Internet. Seguridad y privacidad personal. Alta eficiencia del software. y para eso estamos desarrollando un navegador (web browser) que: Está completamente escrito en C. Pesa menos de 300 Kilobytes (Sí, KILOBYTES!). Se distribuye bajo licencia GPL (Es Free Software). Funciona en un amplísimo rango de hardware. Es rapidísimo. De hecho, con Dillo, un PC 486 y una conexión telefónica, essuficienteRead More →

This is a revised translation of an interview I gave to tux.cl in Q4 2002. Many thanks to Stephen Lewis and Kelson Vibber for correcting my grammar. If any glitches remain, corrections are welcome. It’s interesting that even today (2009) it keeps its relevance on the different topics it covers. Both, about Dillo and FreeSW/OSS. (Original source in Spanish here)   –Jorge Basically, what’s the Dillo project about? The project objectives are: The democratization of Internet information access. Security and personal privacy. High software efficiency. and for that we’re developing a web browser that is: Completely written in C. Less than 300KB (Yes, KILOBYTES!). Free SoftwareRead More →

Dillo project team Colors:activeinactive Project maintainer:  Jorge Arellano Cid Core Developers:  Jorge Arellano Cid  Sebastian Geerken  Johannes Hofmann  corvid  Luca Rota Steady developers:  Livio Baldini Soares  Eric Gaudet  Jeremy Henty  Jörgen Viksell Contributors:  Lars Clausen  Ferdi Franceschini  Matthias Franz  Geoff Lane  Sammy Mannaert  James McCollough  Justus WinterRead More →

Frequently Asked Questions Where is the user manual? What’s the status of the dillo-3.x series (“dillo3”)? What’s the status of the dillo-2.x series (“dillo2”)? What’s the status of the dillo-0.8.x series (“dillo1”)? What happened to the dillorc preferences for colors? How do I force web pages to use my favourite fonts with CSS? Why isn’t Dillo3 finding the font that I set? What libraries does dillo use? Can I run dillo on directfb? Internationalization and Localization (i18n & l10n) Why do some pages look strange? What does “bad font: variable” mean? Dillo2’s rendering is badly broken for me. What do I have to change? WhyRead More →

Simple Dillo plugins text only version | previous version [see also(related and less ancient)] dpi1-v1.0 (draft 10, with implementation)by: Jorge Arellano, Eric GaudetJul 26, 2003/* This document is an hybrid between a draft and a doc. This isbecause the full dpi1 spec isn’t completely finished yet, but wealready have a working framework to develop with. */ ——————— Simple plugins (dpi1) ———————————Introduction———— Hopefully, dillo will have two types of plugins: one of asimple nature (described in this document), that operates in asimilar way of CGIs (with some extensions), and another thatintegrates interaction with the rendering engine and its widgets. The fact is that our current renderingRead More →

Slides from the Fosdem 2005 presentation We made the presentation and it was very interesting andentertaining. The slides were accompanied with “live demos” such as: Streamed rendering of tables using a slow connection simulator. Rendering of a 1.5MB page on a 233Mhz Pentium I. CSS prototype doing streamed rendering (i.e. it applies the style sheet while rendering!) Bug-meter test. File browser demo. The original slides are available as aMagicPoint presentation.Just download and unpack the tarball, and execute mgp dillo.mgpin the mgp directory. The presentation can also be viewed as “no frills” HTML here A special Thank You goes to the belgian companyMind and all theniceRead More →