---------------------------------------- av-98 and vf-1 daydream September 18th, 2019 ---------------------------------------- This is mostly directed at solderpunk. I was thinking on AV-98 and VF-1 and how they're so wonderfully similar. It would be so neat to have a single client that could browse gopher & gemini protocols seemlessly, and they're kinda the perfect place to start that thought. But then I was thinking, "Oh, it would be terrible to start your journey thinking you're on Gemini and safely using TLS only to move into Gopher without realizing it and be unprotected." But if there was a way to differentiate between the modes, sort of like "battle mode" that visually indicated you were TLS protected, then things would be better. I thought about the way I've got my vim status bar configured to change color when I'm in insert vs normal modes and thought about that in VF1. One color for "secure" one color for "unsecure". That'd be neat, right? And what about onion addresses? VF-1 works quite well over tor, and onion addresses provide end-to-end encryption. So they could be safely grouped in the "secure" block, or maybe get a third color. And that's great for knowing where you are, but not where you're going. Colorizing links with matching colors would help indicate your options. But then again, not everybody like colors, so maybe a prefix on links or the bar like an "@" or a "!" or something? Or maybe that's a configuration option. Anyway, it's a whole bunch of thoughts about somebody elses code and clients and not my place at all to direct, but I thought I'd share my thinking in case it inspires anything in you. Cheers!