Dillo2 coming in September
Submitted by srlinuxx on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 17:59.
Imagine my complete and utter surprise after accidentally clicking on the Dillo home page link, and seeing this:
After a very slow 2006, and a project stop in year 2007, the new 2008 came with a renewed work force that kept working steadily behind the scenes. The fruits of this effort are a new and stable dillo based on FLTK2 (aka dillo2), that has more features, bug fixes, goodies and half the memory footprint of the GTK1-based dillo!
This new branch of dillo is scheduled for release in late September or early October 2008.
Oh, I think I may be having a heart attack. Dillo2? Egads, I’ve been looking at the same Dillo version since I started using Linux. A new version might signal the apocalypse.
Dillo development direction ? Toolkit, addressbar, flash ?
Dillo is such a small browser, but stayed current with php. Now that toolkit is being worked on and can read more webpages; addressbar must be able to link to email, website, gears and desktop apps, search engine and other toolbar and taskbar operations.
There is no question that Dillo should be able to add-on or extend with flash(adobe) and use javascript. It may borrow codes from cloud computing servers to extend functions. This can be done by servers converting pixels to mpeg4/h.264. then Dillo decodes the mpeg4 ascii codes. Or the webpage is read pixel by pixel.
Good Luck, Dillo developers. Think cloud computing with commandline(webpage) apps that Dillo can handle?
Footnote:
Pixels data is in the video memory before sent to monitors, sfter horizontal and vertical frquencies are synchronized? This is more clear when you work with USB(cpu with video processor) monitors or think in terms of Fax machines read out on monitor.