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dillo-plugin-man

Dillo plugin for man pages

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3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
11GitHub stars
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What it is

Dillo plugin for man pages

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2024-01-02 21:55:08 UTC to 2024-05-04 22:35:03 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

0122024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsJan 12024-01-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-02-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-02-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-02-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-02-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-02-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsFeb 262024-03-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-03-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-03-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-04-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-04-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-05-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsApr 29

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Jan 12024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-08 00:00:00 UTC211
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Apr 292024-04-29 00:00:00 UTC2024-05-06 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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The extension system[0] seems interesting; it reminds me of w3m's local CGI scripts. (From what I can tell, w3m's local CGI came first, but I don't know if it influenced DPI and/or if w3m's system had a predecessor too...) For a short description of what w3m local CGI scripts can do: * They can be used for implementing a man page viewer, as in w3mman. It seems Dillo has a similar plugin[1]. * w3m's bookmark system is implemented using local CGI; it seems Dillo's bookmarks are implemented as a dpi plugin too. * w3m can use urimethodmap + local CGI to implement additional protocols. I guess DPI can do that too? (At least the custom man: scheme in dillo-plugin-man seems to indicate it can.) I had no idea any browser supported this besides w3m. I mostly imitated w3m's design in my own project (which includes the twist that support for
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every protocol, including HTTP, is implemented on top of a similar plugin system); I guess I have a second reference point now :) [0]: https://dillo-browser.github.io/old/dpi1.html [1]: https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo-plugin-man
In Show HN: Resurrecting the Dillo browser
rodarima·Jan 2, 2024Submission

Show HN: Resurrecting the Dillo browser

Hi, in mid 2022 the host dillo.org expired [0], taking down the website, mercurial repo, the mailing list and the email server used to reach the core developers of Dillo. Someone bought it and now serves a weird clone of the original page with missing content. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32448104 I felt sad as I didn't want it to die, so I got a copy of the repo from my hard disk, uploaded it to GitHub and decided to do some maintenance on the code to at least keep the build working. After some time, the folks at Atari Forum decided to use my repo to port it to the Atari platform and they managed to do it [1]. [1]: https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/issues/34 That gave me some motivation to work a bit more on the project to prevent it from dying. So I created an organization under the name of "dillo-browser" and made a n
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ew webpage [2] with a backup of the old one. [2]: https://dillo-browser.github.io/ With the help of Andreas Kemnade which had access to the original server, we managed to backup most of the stuff from the original website (including non-reachable pages) which I uploaded to the Archive. In the meanwhile, I combined the support for both OpenSSL (1.1 and 3) and mbedTLS (2 and 3) as well as proper CI with rendering tests. We now build Dillo for Ubuntu, FreeBSD and macOS! I also became familiar with the plugin mechanism in Dillo, which allows any program that uses the standard input and output to become a plugin registered to a given protocol (like file://...). I did a simple one (which is just a bash script) to read local manual pages which is handy to follow links to other pages [3], but check also the ones Charles E. Lehner did which are more advanced [4]. [3]: https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo-plugin-man [4]: https://groups.google.com/g/dillo/c/WGEMg7AXN4o/ As of today, I'm unable to contact the main developer, Jorge Arellano Cid, which has not interacted with the mailing list for some years now. Jorge, if you read this, please contact with me (you can find my email in the git commits). Regarding the future of Dillo, I'm planning to (finally) do the 3.1 release after some testing, and for that it would be convenient to have the help of some users to get some feedback ;-) If you want to contribute, feel free to open a PR or send a patch (via GitHub or by email, I don't care). Check also the current issues and pull requests to see what is pending or already being working on. I will probably setup a mailing list at some point too. Thanks! Rodrigo.
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