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dillo-0.8.6-rc4.tar.bz2
by Jorge Arellano Cid 09 Apr '06

09 Apr '06

Hi there! The new rc4 tarball is ready: http://www.dillo.org/download/dillo-0.8.6-rc4.tar.bz2 This is complex stuff... From the solutions list: 1.- Keep it as is 2.- Do Content-type sniffing and follow the SPEC. i.e. as stated above, to take the right of ignoring the offending contents. 3.- Do Content-type sniffing and take actions (like mozilla). rc4 implements solution number 2. Specifically: /* * A mismatch happens when receiving a binary stream as * "text/plain" or "text/html", or an image that's not an image of its kind. */ It was tested against all the test cases sent so far. Please test it throughly. Note: It would be nice to popup a dialog window with a warning in some cases (user friendliness). Now, as it is now it is much better than 0.8.5, because binaries are never downloaded into main memory and there're some warning messages. Maybe the dialog warning can wait for the next release, or if testing finds it's necessary, the release can be procrastinated some more. Subtle Note: as it is, it follows the SPEC. The only action taken is to ignore offending contents. A dialog with a warning and offering download/cancel options would be in the gray line between the SPEC and taking actions. -- Cheers Jorge.-

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dillo-0.8.6-rc3.tar.bz2
by Jorge Arellano Cid 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

Hi there! The new dillo-0.8.6-rc3 tarball is ready for download. Get it from: http://www.dillo.org/download/dillo-0.8.6-rc3.tar.bz2 Finally I decided to include a big patch for the MIME type detection and its handling. This is an important change in the way Dillo treats its incoming files (HTTP streams). The point: as this release comes with a new downloads GUI, and downloads are mainly the focus, I disliked the situation where a Web server "lied" with regard to the Content/Type of a file. For instance, www.linuxpackages.net has many packages and a system of distributed mirrors. Some of these mirrors serve .tgz files with "text/plain" HTTP-Content/Type labels, with the end result of Dillo trying to render the .tgz as text instead of offering a file-save dialog. This patch fixes this. Now Dillo uses its detected Content/Type instead of the one sent by the remote server (there's also a bug fix in the detection code). e.g. http://www.software-mirror.com/linuxpackages/Slackware-10.2/ X11/kpacman/kpacman-0.3.3-i486-1ron.tgz (all in one line) Try it with dillo <= rc2. It will try to render. FWIW, the remote server answer begins with: HTTP request sent, awaiting response... HTTP/1.0 200 OK Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 15:53:23 GMT Server: Apache Last-Modified: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:31:54 GMT ETag: "262819-28292-f8a5de80" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 164498 >>> Content-Type: text/plain Age: 95 X-Cache: HIT from sa8.woowy.com Connection: keep-alive Length: 164,498 (161K) [text/plain] 200 OK I'm a bit surprised nobody complained about this bug before, but I guess with the download support being as crude as it was, it's no wonder only a few people used it. ;-) Bottom line: PLease test this extensively! -- Cheers Jorge.-

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fltk2 on the ps2
by robert w hall 07 Apr '06

07 Apr '06

I'm still trying to get a clean compilation of fltk2 on the playstation2. Switching compilers (the default is 2.95.2 IIRC) to the slightly experimental package of gcc3.0.3 has allowed me to get everything to compile 'as is' apart from run.cxx, which give the following 'error' In file included from x11/run.cxx:55, from run.cxx:185: x11/xutf8.cxx: In function `int Xutf8LookupString(_XIC*, XKeyPressedEvent*, char*, int, KeySym*, int*)': x11/xutf8.cxx:901: cannot convert `const char**' to `char**' for argument `2' to `size_t iconv(void*, char**, size_t*, char**, size_t*)' make[1]: *** [run.o] Error 1 make: *** [all] Error 2 Any advice?? -- robert w hall

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OSDL Fellowship Fund
by Michal Nowak 01 Apr '06

01 Apr '06

Hi Jorge, I don't know if you've heard about 'OSDL Fellowship Fund', which can be found here (http://www.osdl.org/lab_activities/fellowship_fund/) I hope it can help funding your work on Dillo. Check it out. Regards, Michal -- # Michal Nowak # jabber: nowak(a)jabber.cz # irc: #wmii @ irc.oftc.net ---> newman # icq: 170814295

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