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From: yeti <yeti@tilde.institute>
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Subject: Re: Dillo (the browser) is back
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news@zzo38computer.org.invalid writes:

> yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> wrote:
>> 
>> <https://dillo-browser.github.io/#plugins>
>> <https://github.com/dillo-browser/dillo/issues/50>
>> 
>> Additionally writing plugins is easy.  I could nail together a NEX
>> plugin in a short time and I'm planning to play with more ideas for
>> plugins.
>
> The plugins though are plugins by schemes, and only implement the file
> formats as a part of the schemes implementations.

Based on my exchange via Mastodon, I have the impression that they know
that thinking about file format plugins will be useful.  Maybe the
browser currently only renders text/html and text/plain.  Enough to do a
lot but sure far from universal.  Jump into their chat or ask via GitHub
issue or in their mailinglist?  I'm still hoping that they make their ML
accessible via NNTP.

<ircs://irc.libera.chat/#dillo>

The Gopher- and Nex-plugins happily let the browser handle everything
they cannot transform to HTML on their own.  Additional to the plugins'
"native" text formats I only tested HTML and plain text with both of
them.

> (For implementing Scorpion, also would be useful to implement mixed
> character codes, including TRON character code.)

I've near to no idea about TRON.

But yes: I'd like to see "fetchers" and "renderers" as separate plugins
too and it might help to let them know what you think about this too.

-- 
I do not bite, I just want to play.