Impossible? gopher://gopherpedia.com:70/1
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Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 weeks agoI sympathize, but Gopher is designed against hypertext (inline links in text)
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 weeks ago
on mobile rn, how well does that do inline links?
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
It doesn’t at all. It’s just text content. They could have put all the links at the end as a menu I guess, but it doesnt even have that.
Eldritch@piefed.world 2 weeks ago
I would argue that's not quite correct. You can absolutely transfer HTML files over gopher, but you're not going to be viewing it in the gopher program.It was very much designed to be what most people would be more familiar with in concept as an FTP server today, almost. Pretty much all you could view in app were plain text files. and no links between. Everything else was a directory of files to be downloaded.
Gemini is definitely a bit of an inbetween. It does allow for linking between documents, but otherwise keeps everything simple and small, much like Gopher did.
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 2 weeks ago
I much prefer browsing the web instead of 2-clicking within each FTP path. (If you built a client to 2-click that for you then that's just the HTTP web with extra steps.)