[gopher] Clients, capabilities and discoverability

[N. Theodore Matavka]

Any way to package this for CrackBerry?

On 16 August 2010 14:46, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
>> > Still no progress, but I'll try installing the Oracle/Sun tools. (I just
>> > hope that the tools (a 32-bit binary package) don't clash with the 64
>> > bits JRE...) That should allow me to compile J2ME code, and I think it
>> > also has an emulator.
>>
>> The tools clashed, and that's why I didn't test it earlier.  But I've
>> managed to test it: I had to change a couple lines to prevent it from
>> reading only part of the menu, but it now works perfectly on the
>> emulator from Sun.
>>
>> While testing it, I even added some stuff: a "Reload" button and fields
>> to specify selectors in the "Go to" window. (I sent those to Felix, if
>> someone wants it, just ask me and I'll send it privately, unless you
>> guys want it here and say it's okay to post some java code here.)
>
> I'd like to see it if it's cool with John. Speaking of Java, I'm working on
> the next Overbite Android. Downloading is actually more complex than I thought
> owing to setting up background threads. I'm actually implementing a whole
> download service, which seems like terrible overengineering, but people
> expect background loads on Android and Overbite Android should do that too.
> I fixed most of the other bugs and made the page renderer more efficient also.
>
> Getting back to capabilities, I put a caps.txt file on floodgap and I'm
> going to implement a little proof of concept in the public gopher proxy for
> comments before I start spreading the implementation into other Overbite
> clients. If you want to see the proposed file, you can see it at
>
>        gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/0/caps.txt
>
> but a fetch for "caps.txt" as the selector should probably be the standard,
> which will work on pretty much any filesystem, I should think (and on
> those that don't, a pseudoselector).
>
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