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Please help me on this...
by jcid＠dillo.org Aug. 14, 2008

Aug. 14, 2008

Hi there, Looking to a future dillo2 release for the public, I was wondering about the main drive behind dillo2. I mean, in this years of Facebook, WebKit, Flash, propietary video codecs, etc. what's the main point behind dillo2? From the objectives: 1.- The democratization of internet information access. 2.- Personal security and privacy. 3.- High software efficiency. The first one is interesting to analyze along the lines that dillo allows to search for tons of information spread through the Internet using low HW requirements and low bandwidth as a dialup. This is reassuring as dillo efectively enables information access to any person under such constraints. The second one is partly attained by not writing to HD and by a non-existent scripting support. The third one is the one to brag about. ;-) Since some time, the thought that enabling dillo2 as a help browser could also bring local information (i.e. in HD) closer to the user came as a powerful one. Having an app. that pops-up in a second and that's quick, responsive and easy to use is certainly a strong drive for a person in search of information (that's why I'd like to see it inside Debian as a help system). In the near future, I'd like to have CSS and proper floating text rendering (DIV element), plus an API as a help browser. There're countries where paying Universitary studies is the state's burden. If a citizen doesn't want to study there, it's a choice. I think the same may happen with dillo, once people know about it, they can choose to use it or not. While thinking about it, these comments surprised me: "Slashdot | What Do You Want On Future Browsers?" http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/30/1845201 (yes, give them a read!) (They're talking from a full featured Firefox basis. I don't know how may of them would like to use something like dillo) Behind a project like ours, there're two communities: developers and users. The main factor to push forward the project is developers and their motivations (in a commercial environment what pushes the development is the money invested and the profit margins/strategy sought). That's why I'm asking you to help me with your views, needs visions on the future of dillo2 these days. With regard to the user community, I'd love to have some feedback from them, but I guess we need to release dillo2 first! :-) -- Cheers Jorge.-

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[patch] Another selection redraw fix
by Johannes.Hofmann＠gmx.de July 30, 2008

July 30, 2008

Hi, attached is another selection redraw related fix. Again, when selecting text a too large area was redrawn. Cheers, Johannes PS: This is a resend. The original mail probabely got lost.

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[corvid@lavabit.com: Re: patch: form controls outside of forms]
by jcid＠dillo.org July 30, 2008

July 30, 2008

Hi, After the WearLab outage (web site, email, ssh, cvs, mailing list, smoke signals...), let's try to resume from where we were. Jeremy: please review the "form controls outside of forms" patch (to commit afterwards). Michal wrote: > Some nice fable, had to do something regarding this :). Which one?! *please* 8-) Evrerybody: Does anybody know what happened with the WearLab? -- Cheers Jorge.-

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[patch] reduce redraw overhead when selecting text
by Johannes.Hofmann＠gmx.de July 30, 2008

July 30, 2008

Hi, here is a small bugfix that reduces the area that gets redrawn when selecting text. The improvement is mostly noticable when running dillo in a remote X11 session. Cheers, Johannes

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CVS problems
by onepoint＠starurchin.org July 30, 2008

July 30, 2008

I have not been able to "cvs update" for a few days now. I get "cvs [update aborted]: connect to auriga.wearlab.de(134.102.206.165):2401 failed: Connection timed out". Does anyone else see this? What's the problem? Regards, Jeremy Henty

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[patch] selecting multibyte glyphs
by Johannes.Hofmann＠gmx.de July 17, 2008

July 17, 2008

Hi, here is a patch to fix selection of multibyte glyphs as discussed earlier. Cheers, Johannes

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selecting multi-byte characters
by Johannes.Hofmann＠gmx.de July 13, 2008

July 13, 2008

Hi, as you may have noticed, there is a problem with selecting multi-byte characters. If you enlarge the selection so that e.g. '?' is at the edge of the selected text, the character changes in weird ways. This is due to the Textblock::sendSelectionEvent() code that simply uses charPos++, and charPos-- whereas it should do something like utf8fwd() or utf8back() from fltk. The problem here is that we can't simply use fltk functions in textblock.cc as it is independent of the GUI toolkit. Any ideas how to solve this? I thought about adding wrappers to fltkmisc.cc but that's also a bit ugly... Cheers, Johannes

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Navigation popups
by jcid＠dillo.org July 12, 2008

July 12, 2008

Hi, Finally I found a simple way to make the navigation history popups discern the clicking mouse button. Now you can open a new window by middle clicking on history popups. A feature I missed a lot since dillo1. -- Cheers Jorge.-

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patch: (any Solarians in the audience?) rm nanosleep solaris workaround
by corvid＠lavabit.com July 5, 2008

July 5, 2008

It seems that there was a nanosleep() in src/IO/dpi.c long ago, but I can't find any nanosleep()s anywhere anymore, so...

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Attention subscribers
by jcid＠dillo.org July 5, 2008

July 5, 2008

Hi subscribers, For those that subscribed long ago but couldn't get your messages across, your accounts have been cleared for posting. Sorry for the inconvinience, the dillo project is slowly getting into full pace again... -- Cheers Jorge.-

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