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Dillo just shows how fast the web without css, js and fonts is. It loads before you even lift your finger from the keyboard.
by thriftwy 2y ago
Dillo just shows how fast the web without css, js and fonts is. It loads before you even lift your finger from the keyboard.
- anthk 2y agoDillo supports a minimal amount of CSS. The issue it's mainly JS.
- kristopolous 2y agoIt'd be interesting to make a "less ambitious" JS in the same way that embedded chips have these less ambitious "dialects" of c and c++. Like a js-mini that doesn't have the bells and whistles like opengl, bluetooth and midi support
- cxr 2y agoThat's a category error. JS is a programming language. All the bells and whistles you mention are part of Web platform machinery with APIs through JS-level bindings accessible to programs written by website authors. The language/dialect has little to do with it; you're envisioning a different stack that would require a new browser engine, not a language.
- anthk 2y agoIt exists, Duktape and Quickjs, but even on bigger browsers the support it's subpar. Shockingly, edbrowse parses JS pages well enough to login and post in some sites.
- baq 2y agoDitch js altogether and just provide a minimal WASM interpreter. A dillo-compatible page could then ship with a js runtime as a shim.
- agumonkey 2y ago20 tabs for less than 1MB of RAM. At one point I used it for programming docs browsing.
- cxr 2y agoPeople working on developer docs would do well to make them work well in terminal-based browsers, too. This should be the norm.