@justine

For me a few selling points:

• it offers a lot of features (reasonable rendering, a bit of CSS, etc) for the amount of RAM it consumes

• as much as I enjoy CLI browsing with Lynx, having proportional fonts in Dillo makes many documents more readable

• speaking of RAM, it's respectful. My go-to example was a time I was pulling up stacks of CLI-tool reviews, one in each tab. The whole Dillo instance with well over 100+ tabs open consumed less RAM than Firefox or Chrome with a single blank tab

• lots of screen-real-estate to the browser (have to enable the small icons/menus in settings)

• it lets me override the CSS for my preferences

• it doesn't try to cram in extra features—no AI, no JavaScript, no RSS reader, no tab-grouping, no popups/popunders/web-notifications/etc

• it runs on ALL my hardware (while I haven't tested qutebrowser on all of them, Firefox and Chromium simply don't build on PowerPC or i386 any more)

It is just the sort of GUI web-browser I started out with in the 90s. Fast, light, and respectful of me as a user in all the ways that mattered to me.

I found qutebrowser felt a bit heavier and it tried to do a bit more than I needed.

@rl_dane

@gumnos @justine @rl_dane huh.

I recently went from a proportional-rendered RFC on the RFC editor’s site to look for specifically the preformatted/monospaced version because I find that more readable.

I guess this is something that depends on what one’s used to; CJK people also seem to prefer monospaced Latin.

@mirabilos @gumnos @justine

I think monospace is getting overemphasized.

It wasn't until I saw one of @neauoire's talks that I even remembered that code editors on classic Macs were proportional!! XD

@rl_dane @gumnos @justine @neauoire I think it’s underrated.

But then, I’m the one of us who basically lives in an xterm.

@mirabilos @gumnos @justine @neauoire

I mean, zero hate, here. I do almost everything in a terminal, even working with files in a cloud drive. 😁

@rl_dane @mirabilos @gumnos @justine @neauoire

there’s been a few monospace fonts playing around with “texture healing” lately – adjusting widths and spacing depending on letters on each side – still monospace and everything still lines up, but a feel closer to proportional

https://monaspace.githubnext.com/