Comments on: gopher away in JavaScript http://ajaxian.com/archives/gopher-away-in-javascript Cleaning up the web with Ajax Thu, 17 May 2012 07:43:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: FrankThuerigen http://ajaxian.com/archives/gopher-away-in-javascript/comment-page-1#comment-266612 FrankThuerigen Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:56:30 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=4076#comment-266612 @John: in my opinion ( which is not a very educated one on this issue ) mozilla has a heritage in supporting this protocol. In this way it is a matter of continuity for mozilla to keep on supporting it. I think much of mozillas charm derives from these things also. These things = do not drop anything because the business number indicate so... as certain other companies do ;-) @John: in my opinion ( which is not a very educated one on this issue ) mozilla has a heritage in supporting this protocol. In this way it is a matter of continuity for mozilla to keep on supporting it. I think much of mozillas charm derives from these things also. These things = do not drop anything because the business number indicate so… as certain other companies do ;-)

]]> By: JohnResig http://ajaxian.com/archives/gopher-away-in-javascript/comment-page-1#comment-266603 JohnResig Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:43:49 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=4076#comment-266603 @slaniel: One would think that - but if you were to read the comments on the bug that I pointed to you would find a lot of people VERY angrily suggesting otherwise. @slaniel: One would think that – but if you were to read the comments on the bug that I pointed to you would find a lot of people VERY angrily suggesting otherwise.

]]> By: slaniel http://ajaxian.com/archives/gopher-away-in-javascript/comment-page-1#comment-266602 slaniel Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:33:44 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=4076#comment-266602 Seems to be such a niche protocol that it ought to be implemented as a plugin, no? Seems to be such a niche protocol that it ought to be implemented as a plugin, no?

]]> By: JohnResig http://ajaxian.com/archives/gopher-away-in-javascript/comment-page-1#comment-266601 JohnResig Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:30:54 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/?p=4076#comment-266601 It should be noted that Firefox already has support for Gopher but it is in the process of being removed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388195 This patch implements Gopher in a pure-JavaScript manner, allowing it to persist within Firefox but incur much less overhead in the process. More details about the patch: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388195#c71 It should be noted that Firefox already has support for Gopher but it is in the process of being removed:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388195

This patch implements Gopher in a pure-JavaScript manner, allowing it to persist within Firefox but incur much less overhead in the process. More details about the patch:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388195#c71

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