2008/6/14 Andrew Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Evidently the gopher-internet is not at all dead. > It's alive a kicking with active development of several gopher servers (including pygopherd in the Debian repositories), on the client side there is the console client under active development and as previously mentioned by Tzafrir Cohen there is the Overbite project which has along term aim of providing a cross platform GUI gopher browser using Adobe's AIR platform but which after the Mozilla people brought forward the planned pulling of gopher support for FireFox from FireFox 4 to version 3 has been on a short term work frenzy to put together a gopher plug-in for FireFox. I've not mentioned the Overbite project before now as I promised Cameron Kaiser that I would keep quiet until the official launch on June 18th and I'm still reluctant to talk about it even though some else has already posted about it here, suffice to say that it is a big improvement over the standard gopher rendering engine in FireFox/Iceweasel 2 - in that it looks prettier and fixes the bug which prevents FireFox/Iceweasel showing gopher sites that are not on port 70 and that if if gopher support is to be retained in the core of Iceweasel 3 the overbite engine is probably the one they should use.
NB: There is a gopher search engine over at floodgap gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/ and for the gopher challenged http://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]