Re: [Rule-list] About browsers for RULE

[Liam Proven]

On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 09:48 AM, Marco Fioretti wrote:

> have you tried building a stand-alone Galeon, or found any info about
> how to do it? I've asked a couple of times to the author, specifying
> what we are trying to do here, but, IIRC, nobody in their group had 
> ever
> actually tried.

I haven't yet, no.

I have one friend who is a pretty "hardcore" Linux type, and have 
discussed RULE and lightweight Linux with him a lot. (He's not 
interested in Rule as he is a pure-Debian type.)

He says that as Galeon requires GNOME libraries as well as the Gecko 
Mozilla engine, it will be too big and slow for a really low-end 
machine. This has put me off trying so far.

However, the Dillo browser looks good for a REALLY thin web client:

http://dillo.cipsga.org.br/

Also, there's an "official" thin Mozilla coming along: Phoenix.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/phoenix/

I have tried it on Windows and I'm impressed. It's small and fast - but 
it's far from finished yet and is still rather buggy. The good news is 
that the team say that it will be much smaller and faster when it is 
done!

Then, they plan to do a standalone email client and newsreader based on 
those bits of Mozilla. Sounds good to me - Mozilla is my preferred 
newsreader on Windows, but I'd prefer it to be smaller and simpler. I 
don't use a newsreader (or email program) in remotely the same way as I 
use a browser.


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