On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Cristian Burneci wrote: > Today I've come across one of the fastest and smallest browsers I've seen. > It's called Dillo (http://dillo.cipsga.org.br) and runs under Linux. It's > GTK based with a nice but spartan interface. Its size is less than 300 kB.
After stripping, 222488 bytes. > Its loading time is less than 3 seconds on this P200MMX w 32 megs of RAM > and the serious handicap of an UMSDOS file system. This includes the > loading and rendering of its home page from disk. Less than 3/4 of a second here. :-) (AMD K/2-500 64MB RAM ext2fs) $ time /opt/dillo-0.6.6/src/dillo 0:00.72 elapsed 36%CPU > The total time of fetching the Arachne home page with 44 graphic objects > is about 9 seconds (56k modem). $ time /opt/dillo-0.6.6/src/dillo http://www.arachne.cz 0:02.96 elapsed 17%CPU (with cable) > It can render fonts and tables but can't do frames or javascript or CSS. It also doesn't render background images; an important feature on some sites that depend on background images to give contrast to the chosen font color. > Or something else than simply viewing HTML pages. It's still work in > progress, but very stable. Due to its small loading time, It can be very > well used as a helper application I believe I'll try it out for a while as the browser launched from slrn. > but I > stil dream of Linux Arachne stable and featured at least like the DOS > version is. I don't recall exactly when it was, but around 1.68 or 1.69, Michael layed out the master plan. Arachne 1.71 was to have been a Linux release to address those things. I haven't seen anything from Glenn or Clarence that reassures me on that point. :-/ -- Steve Ackman http://twoloonscoffee.com (Need green beans?) http://twovoyagers.com (glass, linux & other stuff)
