Right, you undermine the whole web metaphor by requiring users to use a third party GUI tool. And the web metaphor is one of the key things that makes freenet interesting. It's only possible because we have global reachability. And it shows that our goals are freedom of speech and not "file sharing".
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 01:54:44AM -0400, Colin Davis wrote: > > > Finally, I don't like the idea of a download tool depending on a > >browser because it feels like a can-opener which depending on a car. > >(And in this case, with a horrible interface that connects them). > > > > > > > Fair enough, but your web browser does contain a download tool, for > downloading HTTP files. Even large ones. Because it's a lot more > convenient to treat Freenet as a second layer Internet in some ways, and > be able to directly link to files, and have them be downloaded. Ideally, > they'd be added to the download queue in Firefox immediately.. Maybe if > Freenet becomes popular, there will be an extension. > > But I don't have to fire up GetRight, or wget/curl everytime I want to > download something that's a HTTP linked file, and I'm glad it's that way. > > -Colin -- Matthew J Toseland - toad at amphibian.dyndns.org Freenet Project Official Codemonkey - http://freenetproject.org/ ICTHUS - Nothing is impossible. Our Boss says so. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20050831/37529a0d/attachment.pgp>
