Ian Clarke wrote: > The correct solution is using a "Freenet aware" third-party client that > doesn't require us to hammer the square peg of a Freenet download, into > the round hole of a web browser. The "web metaphor" is all very well > when it is appropriate, but in the case of the download of large files > from Freenet, it simply isn't. Better to do it properly than to impose > an inappropriate metaphor where it doesn't belong.
I've been following this thread, but I still don't see why the download progress page can't be handled by a simple (which may be an understatement) applet. I haven't heard anybody mention that possibility yet and I don't know why everybody is stuck in the HTML-or-full-blown-client way of thinking. Doc -- Theory asserts that although in theory there should be no difference between theory and practice, in practice there IS difference between theory and practice.
