Re: [dev] Re: Why HTTP is so bad?

From: Nick <suckless-dev_AT_njw.me.uk>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2013 13:36:49 +0100

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 02:02:42PM +0200, Dmitrij Czarkoff wrote:
> Well, I meant the networking part of gopher, not its menu system.

Oh good, OK, yes I was refering to its menu system. I don't know
anything about how it does networking.

> BTW it would be nice to have some syntax-free menu system for the web to
> avoid the nightmarish onsite navigation one may find on every other site
> out there. Hyperlinks still are needed though.

Yes. Some site map or apache index style thing that was wholely
standard and couldn't be "styled" would be very useful.

Coupled with a reliable "print view", you could avoid much of what
makes websites so annoying. While modern web technologies enable
many terrible things, they in theory can provide a reasonable
environment. It's the web designers who are primarily responsible
for ruining things. And those who pay them.
Received on Fri May 24 2013 - 14:36:49 CEST