On Sat, 22 May 2004, Randy wrote:

Hello,

First of all,let me say that i don't know a command-line from a chorus line-my feeble knowlege of Linux consists mainly of downloading Apt and Synaptic for my RH7.3 and FC1 distros,and handling it all from the GUI. Just letting you know that your'e dealing with a novice here. : )

Thanks for the intro.

I like the concept behind Dillo,simple and fast.

Beyond the concept --and as a novice user--, I'd like to know what do you like about dillo now? (provided you continued using it! :) For how long have you used it, and what advantage _you_ see over a full blown browser like mozilla. (In my experience, Dillo is more appreciatted by developers and power users. Mainly because they know how to get the maximum of it). In a nutshell: I'd like to know how is Dillo perceived from a novice user's point of view.

I understand that you might be working on a version for frames later on,which would be even better of course.My question though-without reliance on the usual Mozilla plug-ins(which Galeon,Epiphany and Firefox also use) is there anything I can download as a helper application? Would the full Java,for example,interact at all with Dillo when browsing the Web? Would Realplayer,or Gxine with Real plug-ins(i'm on Gnome,of course).

Mozilla's plugins don't work with Dillo. Mozilla-based browsers (as Galeon, Firefox not sure about Epiphany), most probably will work with them). Dillo has its own (simple) scheme for plugins, and they come in the same tarball as the browser. For instance, bookmarks is a dillo plugin, downloads too and ftp. Even when there's a way to patch Dillo to run Java applets, I'd recommend other browser for Java, and definitively dillo doesn't do Javascript (Java and Javascript are different things). With regard to Realplayer or Gxine or PDF, or mpeg or audio or whatever processable datastream we can find in the web these days, it is not difficult to develop a dillo plugin that handles it to the matching viewer, but it's not currently provided with dillo, and probably you'll have to wait too much for the feature (lack of developers beaing the main cause). Try to get the best of the Dillo browser as it is now, be sure to always use the latest version, and please answer the questions above. I'm a developer! Cheers Jorge.-