RE: [Dillo-dev]Re: Eric

[Eric G. <eg...@in...>]

Le 26-Jul-2000, on m'a dit  : 
>   Considering your skills, you have several choices to contribute!
>  
>   -  We  need  to  assemble  an HTML test suite. I have a bunch of
>  pages  for  that purpose, but it'd be great to make a master HTML
>  testing  page  with  short  descriptive links of what the page is
>  meant  to  test.  We  coul finally wrap it into a tar.gz and make
>  it available to other developers.
>  

I can do that. I'll submit the first pages in a day or two (the documentation
will be in the page itself ;-).

>   -  Finding bugs, identifying them and making good entries at the
>  bug track.
>  

I'm already doing that. I'm not sure I'm doing "good entries" tough ;-)

>   -  Making  a  screenshots  page for dillo (A few jpg thumbs with
>  links to middle sized jpg images).
>  

I can do that too. Middle sized would be 640x480 max ? Do you want me to do the
page to present them too ?

>   -  Implementing the bookmarks as an external plugin. The idea of
>  doing  it  keeps  rolling  in  my  mind. Basically a dpi:/ (dillo
>  plugin) URL can be defined, and when accessing dpi:/bm (bookmark)
>  an  external  program  can  be  launched on a thread to 'cat' the
>  bookmarks file (this is very much like current file handling).
>     The  point with this scheme is that the plugin can be extended
>  to  achieve  more functionality (add, move, remove bookmark, make
>  category, etc). All implemented in a CGI fashioned way.
>      With  that  example, other people can start thinking of other
>  plugins,  like  a  man  page processor, or info file processor, a
>  dillorc options interface, etc.
>  

You said that before and I love this idea. I'd like to see a practical example
of plugin, even alpha stage,  before I decide I can do it right.
What I understand, is there's a program called bm in ~/.dillo/plugin/ or
/usr/local/lib/dillo/ (or is it /usr/local/share/dillo/ ?), that take its
arguments on the command line (ie : when calling the URL
"dpi:/bm?subdirectoy=News&fontsize=16", dillo is opening a read only pipe with
the command line "bm subdirectory=News fontsize=16"), then the program "bm"
prints a html page in stdout (and can do something else, like writing a file
on the disk), which page dillo will render.
Is that what you have in mind ? If not, can you describe precisely the calling
mecanism, as well as the data retrieving.

>   - Finish the 64bit CPU support.
>     I've  been working on that. Standarized type handling and made
>  dillo  compilable  with  lcc. Dillo "runs" on 64bit machines, but
>  very bad.
>  

I definitly can't do that, unless I benefit a donation of a 64bit workstation
;-)

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Eric GAUDET <eg...@in...>
Le 27-Jul-2000 a 12:17:08
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