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.
       
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