[gopher] Re: Anouncement: A New Version of Gopher Client

[Cameron Kaiser <spectre@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> > That is, uh, quite strange.
> 
> I know :-) But it's quite funny to look at it 15 years after it was
> first proposed. I look at it as one last attempt to win against
> http/html.

It's sort of HTTP/HTML with none of the advantages. I'd rather work in
HTML than RTF, although I suppose at the time RTF was more developed and
had more markup features.

The real question would be if it degraded gracefully (i.e., a regular
gopher menu for every RTF menu), which I haven't investigated. If it did,
then I *would* call that an advantage, but I imagine that was not part
of the spec.

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