Dillo Idiocy

About a week ago, I took dillo for a test run. It was good, however on the wikipedia article on dillo, I discovered several stupid things :

• Since version 0.8.6, dillo has gotten rid of CSS support
• There exists a FLTK port of Dillo, however it is being held hostage.

Good job. The only reason Dillo is even usable is because of it’s miniscule support for CSS. It was plenty leightweight with CSS support anyways.

Also, why keep the version people want away from them? They state that it’s being held until companies support Dillo more. I wouldn’t support Dillo if I had the choice now.

Dillo also failed at gmail. It’s totally missing https support, though that can be enabled by changing a source file and recompiling (WTF??, why is that not a settings option???). Though the https support is alpha-quality, apparently.

I don’t mind them only providing support for valid documents, but not keeping up with the modern web doesn’t make me delighted to use that browser. Sure, if you have a 486 it could be great (Well, somehow I doubt a 486 could even run Wmii correctly, and there is no CLI version of dillo).

If I knew anything about C, I’d program a bit on this web browser. There are a lot of things it could do to become better. I’d rate it as the web browser of the year for supporting only standard-compliant pages, but these issues are just too stupid to forgive.