Hi Ben,

I hade tried getting Dillo running a while back and
had trouble. Problem seemed to be Pthread related.
I was building against pth a non pre-emptible thread 
library. What threading library did you use ?.
Is there a replacement for linuxthreads on NetBSD ?
Thanks for your feedback.

Kanchan

--- Ben Wong <benjamin.wong@cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Two months ago somebody posted on this list about
> "dillo", a
> web-browser that is fast, has a small memory
> footprint, is usable even
> on small handheld machines, but is still featureful
> enough to be
> useful. At that time dillo was not in pkgsrc and
> reportedly didn't
> compile easily.
> 
> Since I wanted to try it out and I also wanted to
> give a little back
> to the hpcmips community, I made a package for
> dillo. If you have a
> recent copy of pkgsrc, you should have it already. 
> 
> For everyday surfing, dillo is good enough that I
> rarely have to
> resort to a "real" browser. However, I should give
> some disclaimers,
> lest anyone think dillo is flawless.
> 
> Misfeatures:
> 
> 	* Although the binary is small (360K), it requires
> GTK+, which
>           will cost you 7MB of disk space if you
> don't have it already.
> 
> 	* It's still in alpha; that is, they're still
> adding features
>           and haven't gotten to the part where they
> remove all the
>           bugs, yet.
> 
> 	* It does not (yet) have cookies, frames, SSL
> (https), ftp,
>           GIF animations, javascript, java, flash,
> or macro viruses.
> 
> 	* Tables are not fully implemented (but are good
> enough from
>           my experience).
> 
> 	* The right mouse button is the only way to access
> some of the
>           functionality (e.g., adding bookmarks).
> Using dillo with an
>           MP800's touch screen highlights the
> problems with our
>           current Windows + Num + Click scheme for
> mouse buttons.
> 
> 	  Tangent: I think Windows + Z + Click would be a
> nice short-
>           cut for button 3. Does anybody know how I
> might set that?
> 
> 	* Since the spacebar doesn't scroll down by a page,
> you might
>           wish you had a PgDn key, if you have a
> MobilePro.
> 
> That all said, I think dillo is currently the best
> browser available
> for small machines, such as hpcmips.
> 
> You can read more dillo propaganda here:
> 
>     dillo.sourceforge.net
> 
> 	Ben
> 
> --
> Benjamin Wong				College of Computing and GVU
> ben@wongs.net				Georgia Institute of Technology
> Ph.D. Student				Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0280


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