From: gopher-bounce@complete.org Date: Tue Feb 17 21:52:05 2009 Subject: [gopher] Re: Anouncement: A New Version of Gopher Client 2009/2/17 Cameron Kaiser <spectre@floodgap.com>: > It's sort of HTTP/HTML with none of the advantages. I'd rather work in > HTML than RTF, although I suppose at the time RTF was more developed and > had more markup features. If I understand correctly the advantage they saw in RTF is text+images=1 file -> you only have to fetch the information from the server once. With html you would need to download the images separately. > The real question would be if it degraded gracefully (i.e., a regular > gopher menu for every RTF menu), which I haven't investigated. If it did, > then I *would* call that an advantage, but I imagine that was not part > of the spec. I don't think they were thinking about that. This sort of menus don't work at all in any other Gopher+ client - they just display lots of error lines. Matjaz Thread start (DIR) [gopher] Anouncement: A New Version of Gopher Client Thread start (DIR) [gopher] Anouncement: A New Version of Gopher Client (DIR) Followup: [gopher] Re: Anouncement: A New Version of Gopher Client (DIR) Followup: [gopher] Re: Anouncement: A New Version of Gopher Client