Well, the more paranoid will certainly disable applet support in their
browsers...

On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 05:32:50PM +0300, Constantine Dokolas wrote:
> 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
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