On Friday 12 December 2008 03:02, Daniel Cheng wrote: > We have too many ideas, too few developers.
This is always true. But how do we get more devs except by getting more users? And how do we get more users except by making Freenet better? Arbitrarily writing off would-be devs doesn't help though! > > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 7:10 AM, Matthew Toseland > <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > > On Thursday 11 December 2008 23:00, Daniel Cheng wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Matthew Toseland > >> <toad at amphibian.dyndns.org> wrote: > >> > If we're sure that what is connecting to us is a web browser, and the data > > is > >> > >> "If we're sure" ... > >> But how? > >> Cookie? We have cookie disabled. > >> HTTP-Agent? All browsers is MSIE and Mozilla... > > > > User-Agent should work fine. If we're not using javascript, we can send a > > progress page with a 1 second refresh on seeing a User-Agent that looks like > > a web browser. If wget etc is configured to spoof a User-Agent, that's not > > our problem. > >> > >> HTTP Push with multipart/x-mixed-replace is designed for this, > >> but almost no program support it. > >> > >> > not in cache, we should show a loading screen when a user clicks on a > > link. > >> > With javascript this could be updated in real time, without it it could > > still > >> > be shown with a series of redirects. > >> > > >> > ADVANTAGES: > >> > - Reduce the level of user aggravation by showing them that something is > >> > happening. > >> > - Possibly reduce the number of browser connections needed and thereby > > reduce > >> > the impact of running a non-optimised profile. (We WILL still need a > > custom > >> > browser profile however for security reasons). > >> > - Look better. > >> > - We could probably get rid of the 2MB stream-to-browser file size limit > > if a > >> > loading screen is displayed: We could just show the loading screen until > > the > >> > data is available and then send the whole lot to the user. > >> > > >> > https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=2781 > >> > > >> > Thoughts? Should this be a priority for 0.8? Does anyone want to implement > > it > >> > (I'm pretty busy atm!). Does anyone know Javascript well? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Devl mailing list > > Devl at freenetproject.org > > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > Devl at freenetproject.org > http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl > > -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 827 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20081212/ab9165b8/attachment.pgp>
