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dillo, 2 months ago

@otyugh Jorge has not interacted with the community from some years now, even if we tried to communicate with him.

Have you donated to the project?, it doesn't show on Libera (yet?). If so thanks a lot :-)

dillo, 2 months ago

@someodd the version 3.0.5 of dillo in Debian is almost a decade old (a new release is planned soon).

I recommend you build a fresh one from git following the instructions: https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/blob/master/doc/install.md

The dpid daemon should be started automatically by Dillo. After installing the gopher plugin with "make install" it should restart it with "dpidc stop".

If it continues to not work, please fill a issue in the repo with the console output so I can take a closer look.

dillo, 2 months ago

@RL_Dane @someodd dillo dot org is no longer under the control of Dillo developers, consider updating the links to https://dillo-browser.github.io/ or https://dillo-browser.github.io/old/ for the old website.

dillo, 2 months ago

@yeti @crmsnbleyd dillo dot org has been taken by a third party. The website is now at https://dillo-browser.github.io/ and you can find some plugins here: https://dillo-browser.github.io/#plugins

Charles has also some more interesting plugins: https://celehner.com/projects.html#dillo-plugins

dillo, 2 months ago

@yeti @crmsnbleyd the mailing list was served on dillo dot org, but it is now available at https://lists.mailman3.com/postorius/lists/dillo-dev.mailman3.com/ . The archives were transferred there too.

There is not much traffic in IRC, but I hope it can change over time 🙂

Dillo already supports an HTTP proxy if that is what you mean.

dillo, 2 months ago

@yeti @crmsnbleyd @debian_os when the 3.1 release is finished1 several distributions will be contacted. Some of them no longer keep Dillo in their repos.

dillo, 2 months ago

@yeti @crmsnbleyd request sent!

dillo, 2 months ago

@yeti if you want to try the last Dillo I recommend you clone the repo and follow the install instructions1. If you encounter any problem, please report it back 🙂

The name "3.1-dev" was being used until 3.1 is released, but is not well defined (there is no tag with that name).

dillo, 2 months ago

@yeti better to try after a good sleep :)

dillo, 2 months ago

@yeti @crmsnbleyd implementing a #nex plugin is left as an exercise to the reader :-)

dillo, 2 months ago

@yeti @crmsnbleyd Dillo only understands a few commands: https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/blob/ae60cf654a95ac5393fe8dfeeca59f874637af86/src/IO/dpi.c#L198

Here are some docs: https://dillo-browser.github.io/old/dpi1.html https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/blob/master/devdoc/Dpid.txt

The reason for the " '>" ending is to facilitate the parsing of the end tag in Dillo, as ">" could appear inside the tag values but " '>" cannot: https://dillo-browser.github.io/doxygen/dpip_8c.html#details

From a plugin you typically only need the start_send_page and send_status_message commands.

dillo, 2 months ago

@yeti @crmsnbleyd yes, but Dillo won't add those, and URLs should HTML-encode them. In any case, patches are welcome :-)

dillo, 2 months ago

@yeti @crmsnbleyd is unifont monospaced? If so, you may want to place it in font_monospace in dillorc.

It seems to be using a different font for the body (or main container), maybe set font-family: monospace?

dillo, 2 months ago

@yeti @crmsnbleyd keep in mind that not everyone will have a monospace font with braille support, and other fonts may not render "good".

As far as I know, nothing prevents you from fetching HTML directly from nex and use an image to see the fractal. You would need to identify the filetype at some point (maybe by the extension) to wrap plain text into HTML but pass HTML as-is.

Here is an example using data: as image source: https://0x0.st/XsEn.html

dillo, 2 months ago

@yeti @crmsnbleyd even if people have UTF-8 monospace fonts available, a single font may not cover all the glyphs. In particular, in Dillo currently we only support one unique font per family, otherwise we could fallback to other fonts with more symbols. For example, braille is available in "Noto Sans Symbols 2" but not in "Noto Sans Mono" (this is a Dillo limitation).

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dillo, 2 months ago

@yeti @crmsnbleyd

Regardless, this is more of a situation of nex: and other protocols centered on plain test, that strongly depend on a particular font and a particular size and line height.

We can improve the situation in Dillo and select a set of fonts that work okay, as you are testing, but is not bullet proof.

I understand they want to move away from the complexity of layouting something like HTML, but not sure if that is the best solution.

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dillo, 2 months ago

@yeti @crmsnbleyd I didn't meant to discourage you from exploring :-)

It would be nice if you can provide some feedback on the plugin design, so we can try to make it more easy to get started. Do you plan to publish your plugins?, they would be handy to have available for others to play with them too.

dillo, 2 months ago

@yeti @crmsnbleyd thanks! I can just add a link to a public repo elsewhere in the plugin table.

dillo, 2 months ago

@yeti @crmsnbleyd nice! Those pictures seem to be highly compressed.

How does this work?

function mimetype() { awk '{type=$1; $1=""}; /<'"$1"'>/{print type}' /etc/mime.types }

$ mimetype html
text/html

You can get the extension with:

filename=$(basename -- "${path@L}")
extension="${filename##*.}"

dillo, 2 months ago

@alcinnz @treefit from the browser we can only do so much at restricting bloatware. If your bank forces you to use a 5 MiB JS webapp to make a transfer, they have a lot of power to convince you to choose another browser, sadly.