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Comment by rodarima | Hacker News Reader

Generally not great, as Dillo doesn't support Javascript and most modern sites are using it to create content. But if the site degrades well without JS it should render reasonably well.

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I often use it to read Wikipedia articles. The layout is all jambled up, but the article content itself is fine. If a web site is low on layout, heavy on text, it usually works okay-ish. A lot of web sites these days, however, are an empty skeleton with a bit of Javascript code to load the content - these do not work in dillo, it has no Javascript engine; to a degree, I consider this a feature, but it makes large parts of the world wide web inaccessible.

Change the user agent to this one at ~/.dillo/dillorc:

      http_user_agent="Mozilla/5.0 (PSP (PlayStation Portable); 2.00)"

Then a lot of sites will load a compatible version.

The modern web won't stop surprising me :-D

Thank you! I'll give that a try.

Also, not web, but if you try a Gopher browser such as lynx, you can try gopher://magical.fish as a nice entry portal, it has tons of services. Also, gopher://gopherddit.com and gopher://hngopher.com

On Gemini, there's the Lagrange browser, and gemini://gemi.dev with a nice set of services too.

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