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yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> wrote:
> When browsers appeared, we thought of the web as what was accessible
> by them.  FTP, HTTP and Gopher were among this in the early days.

Many browsers can also display local files (which is not internet), and
many newer ones can display PDF files (whether or not they are accessed
by the internet), too, though.

> Today's big$$$-browsers converge to single protocol network file viewers
> and unluckily the smallweb browsers do too.

Some of the small web browsers do support multiple protocols and multiple
file formats. Unfortunately the major web browsers do not support such
things very well even if you add extensions, though; and they have many
other problems too other than just this, anyways.

> Let's prefer multi protocol browsers and return to all goof stuff being
> just a click away from each.
> 
> That was what the web was meant to be and we should make it exactly that
> again.
> 
> First step: Prefer writing plugins for existing browsers over creating
> more single protocol file viewers.

I think that it should be done, although you can still make up new browsers
that may support such plugins too. I also think that the protocols and the
file formats should be handled separately, so there will be one plugin for
Gemini protocol and one plugin for Gemini file format (although they will
probably be a part of the same package, since they are used together), and
one plugin for Spartan protocol (which also uses Gemini file format so you
do not need a separate plugin for Spartan file format), etc.

-- 
Don't laugh at the moon when it is day time in France.

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