Achieved Goals

(Chronological order)

• Introduced a new Domain Name Resolver engine. It's a 98%-new thread-based (pthreads), non-blocking stable design. The good news is that it allows gdb debugging and compatibility with libc5 systems; two major features that were missing with the former scheme.
• Designed a Naming&Coding standard for the project.
• Introduced an interactive bug-track engine at the Web site. It allows developers and testers to coordinate their efforts, and also serves as an information center on project status.
• Introduced other interactive pages that helped to coordinate particular tasks (as stage 1 of the Naming&Coding effort).
• Introduced the layered Naming&Coding design into the the source tree (up to stage 1).
  It helps developers to easily understand Dillo's internal function calls, and to figure it out quickly where they came from. It also provides a two layer ADT (Abstract Data Type) that serves as an all around lib (when prefixed 'a_') and as a module lib (when prefixed with the module name).
  It also provides a framework that supports concurrent developing.
• Completed stage 2 of the Naming&Coding effort. It was a 1.2 Mb source!
  (Stage 2 was the last stage)
• Removed all compile time warnings from the source
• Added PNG image support
• Added POST method support
• Standarized all the memory management to glib functions
• Fixed the image rendering bugs that were affecting GIFs and JPGs
• Improved rendering with support for image resizing (images without size tags)
• Fixed the plugin handler (FTP works again)
• Fixed bugs that affected image URLs (segfaults)
• Documented internal work of the browser (to be extended)
• Eliminated several memory leaks
• Introduced a readable config file for preferences
• Made a public developer's release; a major milestone in our project, cause we had a lot of work to make it possible.
  
• Reimplemented the whole networking process (One half of the browser is completely NEW)
• Stabilized dillo to a better degree than gzilla-0.2.2 (another milestone!)
• Made a public announcement in freshmeat and in comp.os.linux.announce.
  Finally the house-cleanning has finished and we have a stable, consistent, commented, documented and extensible code base to work on.
  (Thanks to everyone that contributed to make it possible.)
• Fixed the blank rendering bug
• Documented dillo widget!
• Designed and implemented a new data-transfer mechanism for internal layers
• Redesigned the cache to hold both images and pages, and to handle its clients with a primary key
• Added ISINDEX support
• Made several fixes, improvements and extensions
• Rewrote most of the Dw module from scratch!
• Reimplemented image rendering with GdkRGB and the new DwImage
• Enabled dillo to work with low screen depths
• Fixed lots of memory leaks
• Improved error-handling in the IO engine.
• Rewrote the HTML tag parsing functions in a standards compliant way.
• Introduced an optimized URL resolving module (96% RFC2396 compliant).
• Reduced dicache's memory usage.
• Added cookies support! (RFC-2965 compliant).
• Restarted working on simple plugins design (dpi1)
• Added IPv6 support!
• Implemented alignments inside tables
• Added iterators (the basis for find text and future copy&paste
• Added a simple command line interface
• Made Dillo embeddable into other GTK+ applications!
• Extended the Concomitant Control Chain (CCC) theory to allow bidirectional message passing.
• Extended IO's functionallity with a threaded operation that allows buffered writes of small chunks on the same FD.
• Used the new CCC and IO to implement dillo plugins! (dpi).
• Wrote a dpi-program for bookmarks.
• Implemented Copy&Paste! (aka. Text selection)
• Introduced a new way of handling dillo plugins! Now the communications and managing is done by a daemon: dpid. This comes with a lot of advantages described in Dpid.txt.
• Developed a plugin for downloads. It uses wget and can handle several connections at the same time.
• Developed a plugin for FTP.
• Made an example plugin (hello), and started developing the https plugin.
• Adapted the generic parser to make HTML error detection, providing the line number and a hint (expected tag) in the error message! -- this feature is also known as the bug meter.
• Added a context sensitive popup menu for images.
• Made even more portability enhancements.
• Made significant improvements to the HTML parser. This brings better HTML rendering, and better bug detection (hints).
• Tested dillo extensively on several platforms reaching the very stable beta SW status.
• Finished the feasibility analysis for an FLTK port.
• Orthogonalized the generic parser:
  • Fixes memory leaks and widget state when recovering from bad HTML.
  • Improves error detection and validation (needed by XHTML).
  • Makes DOC tree generation possible (needed by CSS).
  • Cleaner design of handling routines for bad HTML.
  • Orthodox treatment of double optional elements (HTML, HEAD, BODY).
  • Lots of minor code cleanups.
• Cookies became a plugin to allow sharing between multiple copies of dillo.
• New Abstraction Layer.
• New image handling code.
• Parsing of empty XML tags (e.g <script/> as <script></script>).
• Port to FLTK2.
• Universal CCC (Concomitant Control Chain) idea.
• Implement tabs in the user interface.
• Rewrite of tables code.
• accept multiple character sets (in both HTTP and META).
• optional image loading.
• gzip decoder.
• 64-bit ready out of the box.
• Implement the "file input" control for forms.
• Optimized scrolling.
• HTTP-1.1's chunked transfer support.
• GUI dpi for downloads.
• Basic authentication.
• Configurable keybindings.
• Empty cache-entries removal.
• DPI cleanup.
• Cookies cleanup.
• Limit concurrent connections to a host.

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