Re: polipo, dns, and firefox

Juliusz Chroboczek <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.polipo.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> Much as I am pained to speak well of proprietary software, the right
>> approach is the one used by Opera.

> What is their approach?  How do they do it?

Rather than heuristics that try to interpret the address bar, it's
deterministic: ``w foo'' searches Wikipedia for foo, ``g foo'' searches
Google, etc.

It's quite as quick to type, but avoids the layering violations that derive
from Mozilla's approach.  (The fact that the latter fails to work with
a proxy is a consequence of its being a layering violation.)

                                        Juliusz

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