Welcome to the Dillo Project!
What is Dillo?
Dillo is a
multi-platform
graphical web browser known for its speed and
small footprint.
Dillo is written in C and C++.
Dillo is based on FLTK, the Fast
Light Toolkit (statically-linked by default!).
Dillo is free software made available under the terms of the GNU
General Public License (GPLv3).
Dillo strives to be friendly both to users and developers.
Dillo helps web authors to comply with web standards by using the
bug meter.
Project objectives
The democratization of internet information access.
Personal security and privacy.
High software efficiency.
Current version
Dillo follows an evolving software model where each new version
should be better than the previous one; there's no place for unstable
releases, so just keep with the latest one: dillo-3.0.5.
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Current plans
The current plans section has its own page now
(also accessible from the left column's top links).
Code contributions
If you plan to contribute to Dillo please take a minute to read
through our New Developer Info. There you should
find everything you need to know.
News
Lately
What have we been up to? For
3.1,
we're working on floating elements and an overhaul of widget sizing.
HTTPS has moved from a dpi (plugin) into the browser, and work has been
done to make it more trustworthy. We've added HTML5 character
references, support for HTTP persistent connections, etc.
Dillo-3.0.5 has been released!
30-Jun-2015
3.0.5 provides: Image buffer/cache improvements to make dillo speedier,
placeholder attributes for INPUT and TEXTAREA elements (today's web is
filled with INPUT boxes that are not otherwise labeled), better notification
when user's domainrc settings block page redirection (a message in the
browser window instead of on the terminal), and an assortment of other
fixes and
changes.
Dillo-3.0.4.1 has been released!
24-Dec-2014
This release brings fixes for:linking with the new
fltk-1.3.3.
making sure that windows are resizable with fltk-1.3.3.
not to load background images or permit redirection in --local
mode.
a crash when searching from the address bar and no search urls are
found in dillorc.
building on OSX.
Dillo-3.0.4 has been released!
09-Apr-2014
We've added support for background images,
improved image scaling, improved embedding into other applications,
implemented optgroup, ins, plus some HTML5 elements, added web searching
from the address bar, fixed compilation on hurd and irix, a
white_bg_replacement preference, reap zombies, security fixes, other bug
fixes...
Dillo-3.0.3 has been released!
17-Apr-2013
We've added support for the CSS display property, fine-grained control over
hyphenation, a domainrc mechanism to replace filter_auto_requests, UI color
preferences, a keybinding to view source, a couple of text selection
improvements, some form widget work, keyboard navigation improvements, better
window titles, fixed bugs that cropped up, etc.
Dillo-3.0.2 has been released.
05-Dec-2011
Highlights in this new release include:HTTP digest authentication
More sophisticated handling of linebreaks and whitespace
CSS text-transform property
Locale-independent ASCII character case handling (fixes Turkic locales)
Bind Ctrl-{PageUp,PageDown} to tab-{previous,next}
If not following redirection, show body of redirecting page
Middle click on stylesheet menu item opens in new tab/window
Improved handling of combining characters