[gopher] Mosaic-CK and gopher supportq

Nick Matavka n.theodore.matavka.files at gmail.com
Sat Jun 2 13:45:28 UTC 2012


On 29 May 2012 03:20, Jacob Dahl Pind <rachael at telefisk.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 May 2012, Nick Matavka wrote:
> <snip>
>>
>>
>> All this talk about Mosaic and Gopher has given me an idea.  The UI
>> for Mosaic is actually pretty nice; I like it.  Now that it also
>> supports Gopher, I was wondering about the feasibility of Mosaic
>> stripped down so as to support only Gopher, with bookmark support,
>> let's call it M-Gopher, or Mosgopher.  The size of it would shrink,
>> since it wouldn't need HTTP (not that the Mosaic HTTP rendition is any
>> good imho, even compared to Lynx).
>
>
> It havent just learned gopher, it has known that since the
> begining, hurl and i type is what was added.
>
> sizewise we are looking at this:
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 rachael users 1867964 May 29 08:55 Mosaic*
>
> A stipped Mosaic-ck takes up 1.8mb, are we really to low on memory that it
> would be meaningful to start and poke away at libwww2 to remove anything but
> gopher form it ?
> Would be easier to start from scratch, mosaic has a lot crud in there, you
> could spend an ethernety untangling the spagitty, and still be left with all
> the holes.
>
>
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> Jacob Dahl Pind | telefisk.org | fidonet 2:230/38.8
>
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Well in that case forget I said anything.

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