>From ian at hawk.freenetproject.org (Ian Clarke) >> >From previous discussions on lists and chat, I notice that Freenet >> developers aren't sharing your staunch objection against freenet: URI >> handlers, on the grounds that some weird browsers may not handle them. > >In this project we choose the correct solutions, these are not always the most >popular solutions. Anyway, most Freenet developers have not expressed an >opinion on the subject so far as I am aware, if I recall, it was Brandon who >was arguing the pro-freenet: side. I still maintain that requiring browser >plugins just to achieve the illusion that Freenet is a protocol with similar >standing to HTTP and FTP is a very bad idea.
How is freenet not a protocol with similar standing to HTTP and FTP? I would say that's exactly what it is... >We go from a situation where people can use Freenet easily with any web >browser, to requiring us to provide plugins for every web browser, and >updating those plugins with every new browser. Not only will this require >much more work on our part, but will seriously complicate the installation >process, particularly for users with uncommon browsers. Now if we got some >big benefit from this, then it might be worth considering, but we don't. I think there's a benefit with not being tied into http. In particular, I think we're going to need browser support to have any sort of practical 'security filter' system, or to be able to submit to in-freenet key indexes and the like, or to have client-side scripting that doesn't compromise the user's anonymity... there's probably more I haven't thought of. And I never understood how freenet: protocol plugins endangered people who wanted to or had to keep using fproxy. I agree with you on the .free TLD proxy thing, though, it's a lot of complexity and insecurity for little (if any) gain. It also buys in to the broken and corrupt DNS system, one of the things I like about Freenet is its DNS-independence. -- Benjamin Coates _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl
