[gopher] Re: Item Type Suggestions
Agreed. Keep types "0" to "9" and "i" only (throwing most everything under type 9, including text files with extra control code suff such as DOC and RTF, even though they CAN be read in a text reader... try it yourself), and depreciate all other types (including "h" - html, "g" - gif, and "I" - image)!!!
Is this Item Type system favorable to everyone? If so, I will reconfigure my server now.
--- On Tue, 7/8/08, Mate Nagy <k-zed@hactar.net> wrote:
From: Mate Nagy <k-zed@hactar.net>
Subject: [gopher] Re: Item Type Suggestions
To: gopher@complete.org
Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2008, 10:35 AM
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 08:27:28AM -0600, Jay Nemrow wrote:
> I am really against anything besides true text files being classified
under
> 0. Neither DOC nor RTF files are text files and would break all existing
> gopher clients.
fully agree
> I much prefer putting almost everything under 9, just because older
> clients will do something that is very acceptable - it will download
> and store the file as a binary, which any viewer an handle.
also fully agree.
Binary files (doc, mp3, rtf, what have you) are binary files. Let the
user handle them. IMHO, even building in movie playing support or any
other sophisticated file type discovery into a gopher client is
overdoing it (except for image types, which is often handled by image
loading libs).
Let's keep the ease of implementation of clients in mind (that's one
(or *the*) massive advantage of the gopher protocol).
Mate
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