On 7 May 2006, at 18:04, David McNab wrote:
Ian Clarke wrote:
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?
Seems we've got two imperfect options:
1) Dump user into a sea of broken links if they choose not to have
their
fproxy at 127.0.0.1:8888
In which case the user will have some idea of why they are getting
broken links, as they will have made a conscious decision to change
their fproxy address.
versus
2) Dump user into a sea of broken links if they choose not to use an
extensible open-source browser
Its not our job to punish the 90% of web users that don't agree with
your preferred choice of web browser. Worse, we would also be
punishing those people that do agree with your choice of web browser,
but who don't have the appropriate plugin.
Both scenarios suck, but IMHO the latter sucks a lot less.
Both scenarios are similar in terms of the poor user experience, the
differentiator is which is more likely. Going with freenet:-style
urls is much more likely to lead to scenario 2 than sticking with our
current approach is to lead to scenario 1.
Ian.
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