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Dillo

Dillo is a small , very fast, and free software Free software

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 minimalistic Computing minimalism

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 multi-platform web browser Web browser

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 written in C C (programming language)

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 using the GTK+ GTK+

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 graphical toolkit which was first released in December 1999. It is particularly suitable for older or smaller computers and embedded system Embedded system

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s. In addition to its small size, Dillo is very security conscious- []s are disabled by default, for instance. Dillo is available for most POSIX-compliant Unix Unix

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 platforms, including GNU/Linux Linux

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, BSD Berkeley Software Distribution

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 and Mac OS X Mac OS X

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. As of April 2006, the current version is 0.8.6.

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Dillo is a small , very fast, and free software Free software

Free software, as defined by the Free Software Foundation [i], is software [i] which can be used, copied ... 

 minimalistic Computing minimalism

Computing minimalism refers to keeping the environment of a computer operating system [i] as minimalist ... 

 multi-platform web browser Web browser

A web browser is a software application [i] that enables a user to display and int... 

 written in C C (programming language)

The C programming language is a general-purpose, procedural [i], imperative [i] ... 

 using the GTK+ GTK+

The GIMP Toolkitabbreviated, and almost exclusively known, as GTK+is one of the two most popular widget toolkit [i] ... 

 graphical toolkit which was first released in December 1999.

It is particularly suitable for older or smaller computers and embedded system Embedded system

An embedded system is a special-purpose system in which the computer [i] is completely encapsulated by t ... 

s. In addition to its small size, Dillo is very security conscious- cookie HTTP cookie

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s are disabled by default, for instance. Dillo is available for most POSIX-compliant Unix Unix

Unix or UNIX is a computer [i] operating system [i] originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by ... 

 platforms, including GNU/Linux Linux

Linux is a Unix-like [i] computer operating system [i]. ... 

, BSD Berkeley Software Distribution

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 and Mac OS X Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a line of proprietary [i], graphical operating system [i]s developed, ... 

. As of April 2006, the current version is 0.8.6. Due to its small size Dillo is also the browser of choice for many space-conscious Linux distributions including Damn Small Linux Damn Small Linux

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 and Feather Linux.

Dillo, as of release 0.8.6, has no support for CSS Cascading Style Sheets

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, JavaScript, or Java. Support for frames is very limited: Dillo makes each frame a link, then shows the NOFRAMES portion of the page in question. There is no support for tabs Tabbed document interface

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 and encoding selection in official releases, but these features are available in third-party patches. Third-party patches also exist to support antialiasing Anti-aliasing

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 of text and non-Latin characters.

Currently, development efforts are focused not on adding more features, but in porting Dillo from the GTK+ toolkit to the FLTK2 FLTK

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 graphics toolkit and improving the protypical support for SSL, as well as working on a framework to allow plugins to be easily written and included, as in Firefox Mozilla Firefox

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In these days the FLTK2 port is quite complete and mature but not released in public because of long time lack of funds, which are important for futher Dillo development. Acording to main developer Jorge Arellano Cid there's not enough support from companies, which are using Dillo in theirs products . Jorge claimed that Dillo won't be released without support from companies.

See also

  • List of web browsers
  • Comparison of web browsers

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