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Welcome To Cheshire County, NH, USA | |
Cheshire Weather (gopher) | |
FLGC: | |
Free Libraries Gopher Client 0.2 | |
New in 0.2: | |
now targets both python 2 and 3 compatibility | |
(print() / curses work in both) | |
light support for url proxies | |
(gopherurl://path/proxy?proxiedgopherurl) | |
any movement of selection bar shows | |
current or hovered url at bottom | |
not new: using "back" autoscrolls to top... | |
new: except for single step back | |
(makes it a little less tedious to explore | |
trees with minimal usage change) | |
may have fixed cosmetic line width bug | |
slightly better support of 40 columns | |
Free Libraries Gopher Client 0.1 | |
Our very own command-line Gopher Client (Beta!) | |
The main strength of the Python/Curl/Curses client | |
is easy (for us) interface with plugins, filters etc. | |
Our simple Pygopherd bridge (Coming Soon) works better | |
with FLGC than Lynx (which it was designed for.) | |
Version 0.1 supports 0, i, I and 1. | |
Forg Mods: | |
HOWTO Add "In New Window" to FORG's context menu | |
HOWTO Make FORG Window Title display current URL | |
Any other mods you'd like to see? Hit the Gmane list. | |
(No Promises!) | |
[]- Doing Things The Gopher Way -[] | |
There is continued debate on Gmane (at least archived | |
there regularly,) on how to update the Gopher protocol. | |
It's understandable, especially in light of Gopher+, | |
that people would want to add features to the protocol. | |
It's also understandable that people would consider | |
overloading the client featureset, given that it's | |
still easier to write a client than the server. | |
On the other hand, the reason it's easier to write a | |
client is because the current design is so simple-- | |
unlike (at least less like,) the design of a modern web | |
browser. Features are easy to add to something simple, | |
but feature creep reduces the simplicity of future | |
clients. | |
There's no authority to pronounce as sin, the act of | |
creating an incompatible protocol, or incompatible | |
browser. There *is* a small community dedicated to | |
reviving an elegantly simple protocol. | |
The suggestion offered here is to see how much you can | |
accomplish with the existing protocol. You could always | |
create a newer system, though it probably won't be any | |
easier to find users than it is to find users for the | |
existing protocol. On the contrary, further divide | |
could decrease interest in Gopher. | |
The most likely fate of any new gopher-like protocol is | |
to fade into deeper obscurity and support than the | |
original; even Gopher+ has much weaker support by users | |
and servers, despite being supported by UMN. | |
If it were possible to author a "killer protocol" that | |
offered both the nostalgic backwards compatibility and | |
support of the original Gopher, along with optional, | |
"graceful fallback" support of new features, and it was | |
"perfect" enough to excite the whole community, that | |
might work. | |
Straying much from Gopher would likely be exciting just | |
long enough for people to lose interest in extra server | |
setup, extra trouble writing clients, and a few more | |
people who could revitalize Gopher doing something else | |
instead. | |
Why stray much? Rather than start with Gopher and twist | |
it into Gopheresque, try writing a protocol from | |
scratch. If it gains use and remains simple, perhaps it | |
could be backported to some Gopher+ proposal. | |
Gopher's simplicity is its primary strength, but using | |
the existing specs, more is possible. Better clients | |
that use the same protocol are possible. New tricks are | |
very possible without touching the protocol. | |
For example: it's almost impossible to create a useful | |
photo gallery using Gopher. Almost. Gopher doesn't | |
allow mixing links with images, and any attempt to | |
make that possible would lead to an explosion of | |
graphical banners and commercial advertising | |
possibility (but only *if* Gopher became popular.) | |
Instead of inline images, we propose image galleries | |
using existing functionality (in both command line/ | |
framebuffer and existing graphical clients.) It would | |
not rely on "New Window" functionality, but that helps. | |
We recommend one Gallery page per folder: | |
FolderAA(01-20) | |
FolderAB(21-40) | |
FolderAC(41-60) | |
Clicking on FolderAA you get: | |
(IMG) Gallery01-20 | |
Tip: Try opening Gallery in new window. | |
(IMG) 01 | |
(IMG) 02 | |
(IMG) 03 | |
(IMG) 04 | |
(IMG) 05 | |
(IMG) 06 | |
(IMG) 07 | |
(IMG) 08 | |
(IMG) 09 | |
(IMG) 10 | |
(IMG) 11 | |
(IMG) 12 | |
(IMG) 13 | |
(IMG) 14 | |
(IMG) 15 | |
(IMG) 16 | |
(IMG) 17 | |
(IMG) 18 | |
(IMG) 19 | |
(IMG) 20 | |
Smaller galleries could include all images, or split | |
into fewer than 20 images per folder. | |
In each folder, the Gallery image could show 20 | |
thumbnails as a single image with 4x5 or 5x4 numbered | |
cells. After viewing this as a preview, the user would | |
know which number image she wanted to download. | |
If the user selected her client's "In New Window" | |
feature, there would be no "Back" navigation needed to | |
get to the list of full-size images. Either way, it | |
would be efficient enough to make gallery browsing | |
possible with *existing clients.* | |
Before Gopher is added to needlessly, it's worth | |
exploring new ways to use existing functionality. One | |
could argue that users who cannot thoroughly exhaust | |
and employ such ingenuity using Gopher, probably would | |
not develop a "killer protocol" to replace or upgrade | |
it, either-- but maybe it's possible. | |
Whichever is worth more of the community's time and | |
effort, the community and its members will decide for | |
themselves. That's the nature of open protocols. | |
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2ndwind.txt 2012-May-30 09:37 1.0 KB | |
about 2012-May-16 13:05 0.2 KB | |
flgc.txt 2012-Jul-04 17:35 7.3 KB | |
flgc0-2.txt 2012-Jul-07 20:26 10.3 KB | |
gophermap.save 2012-Jun-06 21:23 5.0 KB | |
urltitle.txt 2012-May-31 12:39 0.7 KB |