Editing Dillo (section)

==Development==
Dillo was originally written in the [[C (programming language)|C programming language]] with the [[GTK+]] [[Widget toolkit|GUI toolkit]]. The first versions were based on an earlier browser called ''Armadillo'', hence the name.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sourceforge.net/p/dillo/mailman/message/4410836/|title=Home page (ASCII version)|author=Arellano Cid, Jorge|publisher=[[SourceForge.net]]|date=31 December 1999|access-date=21 April 2009}}</ref>

Dillo 2 was written with both C and [[C++]] components and the [[FLTK|Fast Light Toolkit]] (FLTK),<ref name="changelog"/> and was released on October 14, 2008.<ref name="Home Page"/> Text [[Spatial anti-aliasing|antialiasing]], support for [[Character encoding|character sets]] other than [[ISO/IEC 8859-1|Latin-1]], [[HTTP compression]] capability, and improved page rendering were all added.<ref name="changelog"/> The move to FLTK from GTK+ also removed many of the project's dependencies and reduced Dillo's [[memory footprint]] by 50%.<ref name="Home Page"/>

In 2011, Dillo-3.x was released, now using FLTK-1.3. According to the Changelog, this change was partly driven by the absence of an official FLTK-2 release, which had previously prevented Dillo-2 from being included in lightweight distributions where it would have otherwise been suitable.

Jorge Arellano Cid is still Dillo's lead developer today.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.dillo.org/D_authors.html
|title=Dillo Web Browser :: Project team
|publisher=[[University of Bremen]]
|access-date=13 February 2009
}}</ref> Dillo is funded by private donations;<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.dillo.org/donations.html
|title=Dillo Web Browser :: Donations
|publisher=[[University of Bremen]]
|date=14 October 2008
|access-date=13 February 2009
}}</ref> efforts to obtain public grants and corporate sponsors have been unsuccessful.<ref>{{cite web
 |url         = http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6109819427.html
 |title       = Embeddable browser project hits milestone release, seeks funding
 |publisher   = LinuxDevices.org
 |date        = 19 February 2004
 |access-date  = 13 February 2009
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20090216082242/http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6109819427.html
 |archive-date = 16 February 2009
}}</ref> Lack of funding led to a slowdown in development in 2006, and a complete stop in 2007.<ref name="Home Page"/><ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.dillo.org/8years.html
|title=Dillo is eight years old!
|author=Arellano Cid, Jorge
|date=August 2008
|access-date=12 February 2009
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220002512/http://www.dillo.org/8years.html
|archive-date=2012-02-20
}}</ref> The project restarted again in 2008 and two months later received a €115  donation from [[DistroWatch]].<ref name="Home Page"/><ref>{{cite web
|url=http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20081201#donation
|title=DistroWatch.com News
|last=Martin
|first=Caitlyn
|work=DistroWatch Weekly
|date=1 December 2008
|access-date=13 February 2009
}}</ref>