[gopher] Re: Overbite "1.1" -- with Firefox 2.0 support

[Cameron Kaiser <spectre@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > I have preliminary working results on Windows 98 and Mac OS X 10.2.8 both
> > running FF 2.0.0.14, so I present it for your approval:
> > 
> >     gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/9/obff1118.xpi
> > 
> > If it works fine, please advise and it will be officially installed.
> 
> I took it for a spin on Firefox (aka Iceweasel) 2.0.14 on Debian etch
> and everything worked fine.

Thanks for the data point. I'm going to try it on XP this morning on the
office PC.

> > Also, a feature consideration. One thing I did change was to make text/plain
> > really honestly text/plain, not the text/plain -> text/html conversion that
> > Mozilla normally does. Do people want this back in a future version, or to
> > make it a controllable option (like render itemtype 0 link-ified by default
> > but have a button for "Raw text only")?
> 
> I have never heard of this Firefox 'feature' before. I think the current
> behaviour is preferable.

If you uninstall Overbite and go to an itemtype 0 page with something that
looks like a URL, like, say,

        gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/0/feeds/voaheadlines/2008/Jun/6/0

then you will see the page is linkified (in this case the source URL the
news article was built off).

The reason that I regard the behaviour as pathological is because it's
not text/plain anymore; Mozilla has turned it into text/html and you can
prove it by going to View Source. However, I'm curious if people want to 
have it both ways. As it stands, Overbite does not attempt to linkify
text/plain and itemtype 0 is passed without modification.

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