XPost: comp.infosystems   
   From: yeti@tilde.institute   
      
   Ben Collver  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.   
      
   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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