Re:Show HN: Resurrecting the Dillo browser
by bluedino on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @07:26PM
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>> I used to use dillo on my main desktop too, for browsing documentation that wasn't too heavy on CSS
Hah! I used an old Dell laptop that had a 1400x1050 (?) screen for this exact purpose with Dillo.
I was so mad that software stopped using Windows help files...they were so much more efficient!
Re:Show HN: Resurrecting the Dillo browser
by tentacleuno on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @08:51PM
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> I was so mad that software stopped using Windows help files
Are you referring to HTML Help? I believe they rendered those with Internet Explorer; I'm willing to bet they still do for backwards compatibility.
I think they meant the Windows help files (HLP files). There seems to be a copy of the viewer here https://archive.org/details/microsoft_help_viewer_hlp
This is precisely the objective Jorge had in mind, so people on other parts of the world with less capable machines where still able to access the web.
While I was in university, I was using an old Pentium 4 at home (which I still use) which couldn't open a single tab unless you wait around 30 seconds for it to load. So I was mostly using Dillo and failing back to Google cache and then Firefox to read something that required Javascript.
I used it for years and it always was super fast. Also, my network connection was not very fast, so loading only the HTML helped a lot.
> So thanks to everyone who continues to work on this, I really appreciate the work you do! Dillo is a fine piece of software that I have enjoyed using for at least 15 years now, and I hope it will be around for many years to come! <3
Thanks :-)