Tiny Linux browser project seeks sponsors (LinuxDevices)

Posted Oct 4, 2006 7:21 UTC (Wed) by irios (guest, #19838)
Parent article: Tiny Linux browser project seeks sponsors (LinuxDevices)

Surely FLTK will yield a good looking and pretty compact self-contained app, and it might so be that GTK2 is larger than GTK1.

However, by not moving to GTK2 they will be left out of new devices such as Nokia's tablet, the OLPC, smartphones using the Linux-based PalmOS, etc. These devices have shared GTK2 libraries for dynamic linking, and in them the memory footprint of a GTK2 Dillo would probably be lower than the static FLTK version.

Oh, and by the way, if the founder's name is Jorge Arellano Cid, it would never be "Cid" who said anything, but either "Arellano Cid" "Arellano" or "Jorge". It is a spanish name with a given name (Jorge) and two last names: Arellano (from his father) and Cid (from his mother). I know this nitpicking would belong to the original LinuxDevices article, but I hope some Evolution hacker reads it here. It is A PAIN IN THE A$$ to input spanish names in Evo (or Thunderbird, or Outlook ...). I have explained this in mailing lists and bug reports, but nobody listened.

dillo needs to be a better alternative

Posted Oct 4, 2006 16:44 UTC (Wed) by b7j0c (guest, #27559) [Link]

i have used dillo in the past and consider it useful, but at this point i
am not going to install gtk1.2 libs on my box. since i have "garbage"
hardware (old celeron laptop from 2001, 256 mb ram), i am in fact in the
market for light tools, but i have migrated to elinks. while i am running a
text-only browser, i am still doing so in an xterm with freetype etc
enabled. dillo needs to at least catch up with these advances.

by the way, elinks has some very neat features that make it worth
exploring. first and foremost in my mind is the ability to code my own
"hooks" with lua. this in my mind is much stronger than the firefox
kinda-equivalent, greasemonkey. i would love it if firefox simply provided
the same lua extensions that elinks supports today.