[gopher] Preference in Gopher clients

[James Mills]

I really like the wa Overbite for FF works and represents things.

I think in today's modern world; one just needs to improve upon Overbite
and add extra support for rendering other types of resources (ideally both
inline with the + and full view).

That's my $0.02 :)

cheers
James


James Mills / prologic

E: prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
W: prologic.shortcircuit.net.au

On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 4:35 PM, Kevin Veroneau <kevin at veroneau.net> wrote:

> Hey everyone,
>
>   I have a question about your specific preferences on how you prefer to
> gopher around.
>
>   Do you prefer a traditional gopher client that mimics a modern Web
> browser, with back/forward buttons and a single page view of individual
> gopher menu items?
>
>   In the past there have been some rather interesting gopher clients which
> displays a tree to represent the gopher menus.  There's also hybrid views
> like we see in OverbiteFF, where we can directly view gopher items by
> clicking a plus sign in the gopher menu.
>
>   So, to your preference, do you prefer seeing gopher as a world wide
> filing system in a unified tree view, or do you prefer gopher to mimic the
> look and feel of the Web?  Or would you rather slap on an oculus rift and
> browse in Gopher VR?
>
>   Unlike the Web, gopher has the advantage of being very flexible when it
> comes to client design.  There's even a FUSE module to mount a gopher
> server as a local file system.  Gopher has true structure and content
> separation.
>
>   I'm sure I brought this up before, but XMBC/Kodi uses a similar system
> for it's media centre.  Where structure and content is separated in the
> same way when developing add-ons.  I actually created a Gopher browser for
> XBMC/Kodi, so you can browse gopher from the comfort of your living room
> couch using nothing more than an IRDA remote.  Try browsing websites using
> a TV browser just using an IRDA remote... it's painful to navigate, and
> content loads ultra slow.
>
>   Anyways this email has gone on long enough, so what would your ideal
> gopher client of the future be like?  Browse gopher using an LCARS
> interface perhaps?
>
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