Re: web

yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> wrote:

Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote:
 

In short, gopher is not the web.  It does not use the HTTP protocol,
the HTML format, nor other web standards such as Javascript.  Gopher
is a separate protocol that is not directly viewable in mainstream
browsers such as Chrome and Mozilla.

 
I contradict.
 
When browsers appeared, we thought of the web as what was accessible
by them.  FTP, HTTP and Gopher were among this in the early days.
 
Gopher is not the web.  Yes.
 
HTTP is not the web!
 
They just are part of the web.
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If by "the web" you mean *The Internet*, I would agree.  However, to me
"the web" means HTML browsers running HTTP.  Call me old fashioned if
you like but IMO what you call "the web" is only *part* of The Internet.

Yes, HTML browsers have supplanted many earlier protocols, embraced
them and made them its own, but still it is only the web, just a part of
The Internet, not its entirety.


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Today's big$$$-browsers converge to single protocol network file viewers
and unluckily the smallweb browsers do too.
 
Let's prefer multi protocol browsers and return to all goof stuff being
just a click away from each.
 
That was what the web was meant to be and we should make it exactly that
again.
 
First step: Prefer writing plugins for existing browsers over creating
more single protocol file viewers.
 
Writing plugins for Chawan (TUI) and Dillo (GUI) is easy.  If you can
say that about other browsers too, let's start a list/FAQ in
comp.infosystems (the protocol independent group please) about it.

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