This worries me, as it has worried me every time someone has
suggested it (it is suggested about once every 6 months on average):
On 7 May 2006, at 14:48, David McNab wrote:
A 2-minute recipe for getting Firefox to handle 'freenet:'-style URLs,
so that mainstream web pages can link to freesite pages without
worrying
about fproxy access specifics.
So websites that use this will only work with users that have Firefox
and have installed the plugin? Isn't it preferable to encourage
people to use the normal http://127.0.0.1:8888/ prefix? This will
work with any web browser without any plugins, even if it isn't quite
as pretty as using the "freenet:" prefix?
While we might gain the visual elegance of freenet:-style URL
prefixes, we lose cross-browser compatibility, and the ability for
people to link to pages on Freenet without special browser plugins.
It really isn't worth it.
Ian.
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