[NTLUG:Discuss] Firefox vs Mozilla

[Courtney Grimland]

Brian wrote:

>If you want to see a truly lightweight browser (open source, of
>course), check out Dillo (www.dillo.org).  It renders HTML blazingly
>fast...IOW, it does one thing and one thing well! 
>
>It doesn't do Flash and JS and all that other crap.  You can use
>Firefox for that :)
>  
>
Or frames, CSS, or anything complicated.  Don't get me wrong - I've been 
keeping up with Dillo for a few years and I like the project.  But don't 
confuse it for a Firefox alternative.  It may get there someday, but for 
now it's pretty much a really fast documentation viewer.  It's 
definitely not backed by anything like the Mozilla foundation, so it 
moves along rather slowly.  It's just a Sourceforge-level project that's 
gotten some attention.

A cool little feature was added not long ago that will show you all of 
the structural errors in the HTML that is being rendered.  I always open 
up pages I've written in Dillo to find all of the errors I made wrt 
closing tags, putting tags inside of blocks where they don't belong, 
etc.  I'm no web developer by any means, so I find that feature helpful.