Alternate Web Browsers
2019-10-12 8:42pm

I have long had a desire to interact with the web without using
a lot of the features of the modern web. I have, of course, used
Lynx (and coninue to do so when on a remote machine). It does
the job fairly nicely.

Last night I decided to download Dillo (no relation to my gopher
client Bombadillo, purely coincidence in similar sounding names).
I really like it! It is a graphical browser built with FLTK. It
does not support Java Script. It is easily configurable as well.
You can toggle on and off remote CSS, inline CSS, image loading,
and background-image loading. I have mostly been using it with
everything turned off. Sometimes I allow remote CSS, though the
layout engine for Dillo does not seem to support absolute
positioning or other placement css like that, which is actually
kind of interesting.

Forms are supported, cookies are supported (but disabled by
default). Tabs and bookmarks both work well (the bookmarks are
a little clunky and take some getting used to, but overall
I like them). The browser is fast and really lightweight. I
could see it pairing perfectly with content served up by
sodlerpunk's web server Shizaru[0].

I have mostly used it for looking up docs and reading wiki
articles and it has served well for those purposes.

I had tried to also get NetSurf, but it is not in the current
ubuntu repos and I did not feel like building it from source
today. Maybe later.

I really like that there are still options out there that are
not WebKit (Firefox, of course, is not WebKit and I use it for
my more resource intensive browsing as needed).

Anyway, check it out if you want a small fast browser that 
supports html5 and a decent amount of css without a bunch
of junk running on your system you dont want.