Talk:Dillo

message: The article does not mention the existence of the multitude of patches to overcome many of Dillo 1.x´s perceived shortcomings. Before the project ground to a halt there was a period of quite active development by external developers which lead to the introduction of support for frames and tabs, https, asian languages and more (see  for a list of features). When it became clear that the core developers (Jorge and Sebastian) were not interested in adopting external patches and instead started to actively drive external developers away from the project, most of those who worked on Dillo gave up. Dillo development ground to a halt while the core developers concentrated on finding financial sponsors instead of actual development, an attitude which seemed counterproductive in the face of the number of volunteer developers willing to participate in the project. Many of the original patch sites have since disappeared, but the accumulated efforts of this period of activity can still be found (). The patches are/were commonly applied by package maintainers like Damn Small Linux Dillo so the efforts of those external developers were not in vain. Egnaledknarf (talk) 15:02, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Frames, Tabs, SSL, I18N and others 

message: I see only Gnu/Linux and NetBSD on the Dillo download page at http://www.dillo.org/download.html  --Wootery 14:31, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Dillo for Windows is a not supported not official and unstable port. FedericoMP 02:39, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Windows version? 

message: Given that free software is a worldwide phenomenon and “LL” can either sound like an English “Y” or an “L” it might be helpful to clarify the pronunciation of this program.
Thanks  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.183.100.8 (talk) 19:32, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation? 

message: I have not seen a native port of Dillo to the Mac OSX.  Why is it in Mac OSX category? --Anon.
:Probably because of the GNU Darwin packages linked in the downloads page. --maru   (talk)  contribs 04:09, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mac OS X port 

message: "Dillo is highly secure - cookies are disabled by default, for instance." OK so maybe it's a secure browser, but I hardly think having cookies disabled shows it as being any more or less secure than other browsers. How about a better example of what makes it secure? SilverFox 04:35, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Highly Secure 

message: Since Dillo is not officially available for Windows, and the project leader has expressed clear hate to the Windows platform, going as far as implying all Windows users are believers of false myths, I think Windows should be removed from Dillo's list of supported OS. Ufopedia (talk) 11:48, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove Windows from supported OS? 

message: I saw on the Armadillo (disambiguation) page:
*"Armadillo Web Browser, now called Dillo"
however, I don't see that information on this article, or anywhere else. I've removed it from that DAB page, but it could be relisted if it is verified to be true on this article. +mt 15:54, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: "I bring it back" after 5 min search in the web I relised: Gzilla and armadillo are / were layout engines for dillo o.O mabdul 0=* 20:17, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Armadillo Web Browser 

message: hey remember the dot,
you amke a very good job! this is really good. can you search/add information about armadillo (see above)?!? 
bi-directional text. you revertet that back with the argument that dillo that doesn't support that. but that says the paragraph: dillo doesn't support flash, js, [...], bi-directional trext. ? or miss i something? mabdul 0=* 18:18, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Dillo not only does not support a mixture of left-to-right and right-to-left (bi-directional) text, it doesn't support right-to-left text at all. Thanks for your feedback! I've edited the article to mention Armadillo. —Remember the dot (talk) 19:09, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: oh, you're right. I read again and it was my fault. sry. mabdul 0=* 21:33, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  cleanup 

message: Is a ~100 euro donation *really* significant enough to note? -- Thisisquitealongname  (talk) 23:01, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Development 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The article was edited by "Pmffl" on the 3rd of January 2019 to describe Dillo as a "discontinued" project in the summary. This has not been officially stated anywhere that I can find and the project's website still declares an intention to release the next version, V. 3.1.
The development mailing list is still slightly active, and the source respository log shows the latest contribution in October 2018. While development is clearly slow and may be very close to stalled, I don't see any justification for declaring it discontinued altogether. Computer Nerd Kev (talk) 00:04, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I fully agree that describing it as "discontinued" is not really justified. For the time being I've added a "citation needed" tag in case there are some sources for the claimed status. For evidence, I'd have looked at distributions (Debian unstable, Fedora, Arch, NixOS) removing the package, but none of them have done so. According to the page history, somebody (User Kasijjuf) removed the "discontinued" description, after the parent comment was written, but their edit has been since reverted, "per IRC", which is not very informative. Gephyra (talk) 01:52, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discontinued? 

message: Dillo is fast and stable compared to Firefox. The only challenge is cookie configuration. Ref. Browser notes. Rather ironic to have a nice article about Dillo when documentation to use it in the system is essentially non-existent. =8~/ Can Dillo be used to edit in Wikipedia? Someone please improve documentation for cookie configuration at least. Eventually it should be documented properly. Thanks, ... PeterEasthope (talk) 01:26, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usage in Wikipedia 

message: is there a version of Dillo for Solaris (even the oldest one) 212.35.180.135 (talk) 04:08, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  is there a version of this browser for Solaris/OpenSolaris? 

message: Disclaimer: I maintain https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo.
The article claims that HTTPS was added by the DilloNG fork:
> A plug-in to add HTTPS support is likewise under development.
> DilloNG is a fork hosted on GitHub which moved the code from Mercurial while adding HTTPS support
But this is not true. The official Dillo had HTTPS support since dillo-0.8.0 on Feb 08, 2004. Initially the HTTPS support was provided by a plugin (called a DPI in Dillo terminology) and later moved to the browser itself, by corvid on May 8, 2015, based on the work of other developers (check the copyright lines for details) which added support for OpenSSL and LibreSSL. Later the HTTPS support was ported to mbedTLS instead, by corvid too in Jul 3, 2016 as OpenSSL was considered a nightmare:
> OpenSSL is such a notorious nightmare--one gets the distinct impression that the developers have not taken their responsibility seriously--that I was curious to try a different one that is supposed to be more comprehensible.
Notice that corvid also uses the username eocene.
DilloNG never claimed that they added HTTPS support, but dillo-plus did "A lightweight web browser based on Dillo but with many improvements, such as: support for http, https [...]". However, they decided to not keep the git history, so now it is hard to determine who wrote what on their repository.
Later, I decided to merge the support for OpenSSL and mbedTLS (none written by me) so they can be selected at build time, so the user can choose which one wants. I also added some patches to build Dillo with OpenSSL 1.1 and 3 as well as some fixes for bad behaved servers, as you can see in the ChangeLog. Dillo is now built with TLS support by default, unless explicitly instructed not to. DilloMaintainer (talk) 22:15, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  HTTPS support