fosstodon.org is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Fosstodon is an invite only Mastodon instance that is open to those who are interested in technology; particularly free & open source software. If you wish to join, contact us for an invite.

Administered by:

Server stats:

11K
active users

Dillo browser

is now 25 years old!

Check out the special page for the anniversary: dillo-browser.github.io/25-yea

@dillo Congrats to the Dillo team for 25yr of excellence!

@dillo Gosh, the memories... Many years ago I've sent an emotional/excited email to Jorge Arellano Cid about how I loved Dillo's responsiveness on my weak computer. Can't find it in the archives at the moment, but I still respect Dillo developers and maintainers. Thank you very much for this great work!

@dillo happy birthday to one of my most cherished free software projects!

was truly the one that made spirit of Free Software shine; lightweight, fast and BS-less browsing, perfect to resurrect old machines and surf the web in the 2010s. And the project restart this year was truly magical. May Dillo keep shining the coming years!

@dillo
Wow, a quarter of a century, and it still has its place. 🥳
BTW I don't understand the FLTK 2 issue, so Dillo is still (again) using FLTK 1.3? How could one of the necessary FLTK 2 libraries simply disappear? That's quite frustrating.

@amarok FLTK 2 was never finished and published in a release. The code didn't dissapear, but it never made its way to a package in any distribution, so Dillo would have to include it's own copy of FLTK 2.

Eventually, FLTK 2 was abandoned and when FLTK 1.3 was released, it was decided to port Dillo to it (understandably).

You can see the history in this graph:

fltk.org/images/monthly_commit