On Sat June 14 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > so for me, this is an interesting situation. But I don't use > gopher. For you it must be downright annoying. > > Here's how it's interesting. Firefox provided a full-blown modern > gopher browser that essentially killed the other gui gopher browsers > by being vastly superior. Now firefox has dropped gopher support. I > think that will do one of two things: 1) largely kill what remains of > gopher, 2) spur development of gui gopher browsers that have > languished. I would hope for the second option. I don't think it > serves anyone to have a single dominant player for a given > protocol. If the gopher protocol still has life in it (and I gather > that it does), then the community will be better served by having > motivation to pick up development of the other browsers, or perhaps > incorporate better gopher support into the other web browsers.
a blast from the past:) http://seanm.ca/mosaic/ Development of Mosaic stopped in 1996 (official date was January 7th 1997). I have updated Mosaic so it will compile on a modern Linux system. I also added support for the gopher info tag. I remember using Mosaix for gopher sites, when MY COMPANY blocked us from using http sites, but they DIDN'T block gopher... I learned how to use gopher! -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
