From: gopher-bounce@complete.org Date: Thu Aug 7 08:08:04 2008 Subject: [gopher] Re: update on #388195 > > At the risk of ruining all the fun lately over new protocol discussions ;-), > > I have a progress report on the #388195 killer (i.e., the JavaScript > > reimplementation of Gopher in Mozilla Core). This has taken longer than I > someone is doing something productive! whee!... Well, I'm doing *something*, anyway. We can argue over the productive part ;-) > > The idea is that OverbiteFF will continue to exist in parallel with the > > special features and different appearance, plus the features vetoed by the > > Mozilla muckymucks, so that "pro" Gopher users can get these features back. > > But at least this will preserve Gopher support for casual users. > generally what features do you expect to be missing? The stylesheets and icons are definitely toast, because I know that they will want everything integrated into the application/http-index-format style and while I don't like the implementation it makes sense from an application unity point of view. The root menu icon is, as a consequence, also gone, and if I reimplement that as XUL instead of HTML in a future version I'll have to see if they'll let me sneak that in. So, if you like the enhanced appearance of OverbiteFF (and I do, because it's very nice to graphically see all the item types again, plus styled display strings), you'll have to have the add-on installed to get it. I'm pretty sure that if they let me get around the port != 70 problem with the whitelist, then things like CSO/ph *will* be in the default support. If they don't, there's no reason for it being there (port 105), so it will be removed and made OverbiteFF only. -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser@floodgap.com -- The Army needs leaders the way a foot needs a big toe. -- Bill Murray ------ Thread start (DIR) [gopher] update on #388195 Thread start (DIR) [gopher] update on #388195 (DIR) Followup: [gopher] Re: update on #388195 (DIR) Followup: [gopher] Re: update on #388195