XPost: comp.infosystems   
   From: snipeco.2@gmail.com   
      
   yeti  wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   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.   
      
      
   [what follows is left for context]   
   > 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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