Ian Clarke wrote: > 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.
/me stifles the temptation to write an fproxyproxy -- Cheers David _______________________________________________ chat mailing list chat@freenetproject.org Archived: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.general Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chat Or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
