Stupid (and unthankful) question perhaps, but have you considered working on https://ladybird.dev instead? Kling and the small team seem to be making great progress.

AFAIK, Ladybird goal is to build an independent web browser from scratch that can render the "modern" web.

Dillo original goal[1] is to provide access to the web to places with very bad internet speed or latency as well as old or resource constrained computers.

[1]: https://dillo-browser.github.io/old/interview.html

I don't think we will ever implement JS support, as that would increase a lot the minimum requirements to run Dillo and make the attack surface on the browser much bigger.

Rather than joining Ladybird, it would be great to see a merge of Netsurf and Dillo as a very lightweight alternative to Blink/Webkit/Gecko/Goanna-based browsers.

For low bandwidth or slow computers, also try Carbonyl Terminal (https://github.com/niutech/carbonyl-terminal).

If you like Carbonyl, but want something simpler, you may also find my TUI browser Chawan[0] interesting. It supports CSS and JS (kind of...), but unlike Carbonyl, it has its own browser engine written from scratch. It also bears similarities to Dillo, in that it's easy to add custom protocols.

[0]: https://sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/

Very nice! Are there any binary packages to test it on Linux/WSL? Have you considered support for UTF-8 half-blocks or Sixel for graphics?

> Are there any binary packages to test it on Linux/WSL?

Some kind strangers have created unstable packages on the AUR[0] and NixOS[1]. The former is quite recent, the latter is somewhat older.

> Have you considered support for UTF-8 half-blocks or Sixel for graphics?

In fact, there is experimental support for the sixel & kitty protocols, but for now it's slow, ugly, and only works with PNG.

You can play around with it by putting the following in ~/.config/chawan/config.toml:

    [[siteconf]]
    host = 'm\.xkcd\.com' # regex for URL matching; .* also works
    images = true # try `cha m.xkcd.com'

but you will see that it's undocumented for a reason...

[0]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chawan-git

[1]: https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=unstable&show=chaw...

I think not, Dillo it's much faster than Netsurf, and it's often more stable.

If you combine performance & stability of Dillo with better HTML5 support of Netsurf, you could get a great lightweight alternative to mainstream browsers.

Often by using Dillo's minimal CSS web sites get far less broken than with Netsurf.

With Dillo I'd just had as a 'new' feature, audio and video links opened with xdg-open (or any other plumber) and better Unicode support, which might be reduced due to FLTK, but FLTK itself calls XFT, so I doudt it, as I happened to perfectly open Motif based stuff compiled against XFT with the full coverage of the Unifont font set.

Dillo Plus supports external media playback (https://github.com/crossbowerbt/dillo-plus/#external-media-p...), maybe it could be backported to Dillo?

OK, thanks for clarifying the goal.