July 2003 - Dillo-dev - lists.mailman3.com

Re: [Dillo-dev] Porting to Windows?

by Kelson Vibber

At 03:37 AM 7/7/2003, Andreas Tolfsen wrote: >I've just been wondering; Are there any future plans for porting Dillo to >the Windows platform? Or is Dillo to stay on GNU/Linux? Good question. (Although technically it's not Linux-only right now, it's Linux & Unix only.) Just for fun I tried building it on Windows 2000 with Cygwin. It seems to work fine, although I can't say I've done any serious stress testing. Note that you do need to download and compile glib and gtk+ <http://www.gtk.org/> and make one change to the glib source <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2002-07/msg00276.html>. Of course this is no real solution, because you have to: (1) Install Cygwin with XFree86, (2) Install Glib/GTK+, and (3) Run X every time you want to use Dillo. There is a port of GTK+ to Windows, though, which was originally done for the Windows port of GIMP <http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/>. I have no idea what else would be needed to port Dillo using these, or whether any of the main developers would think it was worth the effort. Kelson Vibber www.hyperborea.org

July 8, 2003

Re: Some news...

by Jorge Arellano Cid

Hi! > > This has been a very busy week. I didn't anticipate how much > work the dpid (dpi daemon) integration could take. Don't panic > though!, the code that binds it all is running (to some extent) > in my machine. The time consuming problem is that while making > the integration, a lot of design matters spring in, and they take > a lot of time to solve. > > The good news is that it all starts to shape into a more clear > design (the code is still hackish at parts, but it is clear what, > where and how to fix it). > > While working the gory details of it, I realized it'd be a good > idea to make the 0.7.3 release with what we have now (plus a > little bug fix we're working on with Sebastian). That way, > there'll be less pressure on us while polishing the new dpid > implementation, and hey!, it's been a long time since our last > release. > > I'll keep the CVS free of the dpid code until the 0.7.3 release > is done. For the meanwhile, I'll provide a tarball to the new > code. (and if I can't wrap the new code before Monday, I'll > provide a link to the latest dpid testing tarball I have). First, the final code for the 0.7.3 is on the CVS (unless you find a bug in it). It will be released by Wednesday, so please give it a hard test today and tomorrow! With regard to 0.8.0-pre (aka dillo with dpid), here's the good news: * Finally I have a tarball that does bookmarks and downloads with dpid (using wget)! It can handle multiple plugins and is working smoothly. I want to add one more plugin (at least) and update the documentation before commiting it to the CVS (after releasing 0.7.3 of course). For those very interested in studying it, please review: http://dillo.org/download/dpid4.tgz (not my tarball but the dpid testing suite itself) Cheers Jorge.-

July 7, 2003

Re: [Dillo-dev] When does dillo plan on getting ported to GTK2 and pango?

by Kelson Vibber

At 04:34 AM 7/7/2003, Timothy Beyer wrote: >As for the gtk2, I believe its already in dillo, I think I enabled it at >one point using --enable-gtk2 on ./configure (Correct me if I'm wrong) Out of curiosity, I tried this on my Linux box at work (Red Hat 9). It still built with GTK+ 1.2 (Try "ldd /path/to/dillo" and see what version it's linked to.) I then tried removing the GTK+ 1.2 development package, at which point configure couldn't detect GTK at all. Kelson Vibber www.hyperborea.org

July 7, 2003

Nostradamus

by Kelson Vibber

At 12:35 PM 7/5/2003, Jorge Arellano Cid wrote: > > "Come the millennium month 12, in the home > > of the greatest power, the village idiot will come > > forth to be acclaimed the leader."--Nostradamus 1555 > > Quite interesting tag! Is it really from Nostradamus? > Can you provide a URL to the full text of Nostradamus verses? No, it's not from Nostradamus, it's just a joke someone made up around the time of the election. I don't have a list of his full verses, but I often visit a site that investigates urban legends. Here's what they have to say about this one: http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/nostra.htm Kelson Vibber www.hyperborea.org

July 7, 2003

Re: [Dillo-dev] When does dillo plan on getting ported to GTK2 and pango?

by Timothy Beyer

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Todd Slater wrote: As for the gtk2, I believe its already in dillo, I think I enabled it at one point using --enable-gtk2 on ./configure (Correct me if I'm wrong) > Please, no! Is it my imagination, or is everything slower with GTK2? No, not really, the performance should be roughly the same. (Actually gtk2 should be faster as it gets more efficient) A major factor is the engine you use. I ported the pixmap "AbsoluteE" theme to gtk2 and it was slower than a snail (gdk pixbuf). However, I run the mist (etria.org-blue) engines on my gtk1 and gtk2 themes and both are incredibly quick. One factor COULD be xft, (although I think its possible, although by no means a standard practice to enable xft on gtk1) which might slow things down a bit, but personally, I would stay away from a non-antialiased browser... Tim

July 7, 2003

Porting to Windows?

by Andreas Tolfsen

I've just been wondering; Are there any future plans for porting Dillo to the Windows platform? Or is Dillo to stay on GNU/Linux? I think porting to Windows would let Dillo have a much bigger audience to speak to (since about 90% of the worlds computers run Windows). I just wondered if there were any plans? Best regards for a wonderful open-source browser, Andreas Tolfsen <ato(a)itnerd.net>

July 7, 2003

Solaris IPv6 DNS and http_proxy segfault

by Todd Carson

I just built dillo on Solaris 9 and I encountered a few issues compiling and running it. I didn't see any mention of these in the bug entries or the list archives, but I'll admit I didn't look for very long, so if any of these have already been dealt with, I apologize. Dillo won't compile on Solaris 9 (and probably earlier versions too) with IPv6 enabled. In dns.c it calls gethostbyname2() for IPv6 name resolution; this function doesn't exist in Solaris, it should use getipnodebyname() or getaddrinfo(). I edited dns.c and replaced the gethostbyname2() call with a call to getipnodebyname(). The diff follows: --- src/dns-dist.c Sun Jul 6 23:29:05 2003 +++ src/dns.c Sun Jul 6 23:33:08 2003 @@ -244,6 +244,7 @@ memcpy(&dh->data[0], host->h_addr_list[i], host->h_length); list = g_slist_append(list, dh); } + freehostent(host); return list; } @@ -260,6 +261,7 @@ struct hostent sh; #endif GSList *hosts = NULL; + int err_num; #ifdef G_DNS_THREADED /* Set this thread to detached state */ @@ -271,9 +273,14 @@ #ifdef ENABLE_IPV6 if (ipv6_enabled) { - host = gethostbyname2(dns_server[channel].hostname, AF_INET6); + host = getipnodebyname(dns_server[channel].hostname, AF_INET6, AI_DEFAULT, &err_num) if (host) - hosts = Dns_note_hosts(hosts, AF_INET6, host); + { + if (host->h_length == 4) + hosts = Dns_note_hosts(hosts, AF_INET, host); + else + hosts = Dns_note_hosts(hosts, AF_INET6, host); + } } #endif This works okay for me, but I'm not a programmer, so it's fairly sloppy, probably introduces new bugs, and could certainly be improved upon. I'm particularly unsure if that's the right place for the freehostent(), or if that's necessary at all. The other issue I ran into was that Dillo will apparently segfault, at least on my system, if the http_proxy environment variable is set and contains only a hostname and port rather than a full URL. Here's the console output: Setting locale to C... dillo_dns_init: Here we go! Cookies: Created file: /home/tc/.dillo/cookies Enabling cookies as from cookiesrc... Nav_open_url: Url=>about:splash< Nav_open_url: Url=>http://dillo.auriga.wearlab.de/< Dns_server [0]: is 0 zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped) dillo Again, I'm sorry if these have already been brought up, and I hope I've been somewhat helpful if they haven't. -- Todd Carson | tc(a)telerama.com | GPG: CA8E1FCB ~ Ubi dubium, ibi libertas. ~

July 7, 2003

Re: [Dillo-dev] text wrap aroung images?

by Jorge Arellano Cid

Joe, > I'm curious about why Dillo doesn't wrap text around images, but treats > all images as a paragraph IYSWIM. > > Is this a fault in the way people are doing their html (Slashdot?!), or > is it something with Dillo? > > Not a major issue, but it seems to be a standard thing in HTML. Dillo doesn't yet has support for floating text around images. It is our fault. Sometime ago someone provided a patch to do this, but it seems to break some other things. Sebastian may have more accurate news about this subject matter. Cheers Jorge.- PS: [interesting off-topic] > "Come the millennium month 12, in the home > of the greatest power, the village idiot will come > forth to be acclaimed the leader."--Nostradamus 1555 Quite interesting tag! Is it really from Nostradamus? Can you provide a URL to the full text of Nostradamus verses?

July 5, 2003

Some news...

by Jorge Arellano Cid

Hi there! This has been a very busy week. I didn't anticipate how much work the dpid (dpi daemon) integration could take. Don't panic though!, the code that binds it all is running (to some extent) in my machine. The time consuming problem is that while making the integration, a lot of design matters spring in, and they take a lot of time to solve. The good news is that it all starts to shape into a more clear design (the code is still hackish at parts, but it is clear what, where and how to fix it). While working the gory details of it, I realized it'd be a good idea to make the 0.7.3 release with what we have now (plus a little bug fix we're working on with Sebastian). That way, there'll be less pressure on us while polishing the new dpid implementation, and hey!, it's been a long time since our last release. I'll keep the CVS free of the dpid code until the 0.7.3 release is done. For the meanwhile, I'll provide a tarball to the new code. (and if I can't wrap the new code before Monday, I'll provide a link to the latest dpid testing tarball I have). Cheers Jorge.-

July 4, 2003

Re: [Dillo-dev] When does dillo plan on getting ported to GTK2 and pango?

by Todd Slater

On Thu, 03 Jul 2003 07:17:59 +1000 TheStar <thestar(a)tpg.com.au> wrote: > Afaik, pango would allow multiple language support??? (I'm new in > this) Please, no! Is it my imagination, or is everything slower with GTK2? Todd -- The dubya stands for whore.

July 3, 2003