Re: (amended) HOWTO: firefox 'freenet:' protocol handling
Ian Clarke <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.freenet.general |
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On 7 May 2006, at 18:04, David McNab wrote: > Ian Clarke wrote: >> So websites that use this will only work with users that have Firefox >> and have installed the plugin? > ... >> Isn't it preferable to encourage people >> to use the normal http://127.0.0.1:8888/ prefix? > > Seems we've got two imperfect options: > > 1) Dump user into a sea of broken links if they choose not to have > their > fproxy at 127.0.0.1:8888 In which case the user will have some idea of why they are getting broken links, as they will have made a conscious decision to change their fproxy address. > versus > > 2) Dump user into a sea of broken links if they choose not to use an > extensible open-source browser Its not our job to punish the 90% of web users that don't agree with your preferred choice of web browser. Worse, we would also be punishing those people that do agree with your choice of web browser, but who don't have the appropriate plugin. > Both scenarios suck, but IMHO the latter sucks a lot less. Both scenarios are similar in terms of the poor user experience, the differentiator is which is more likely. Going with freenet:-style urls is much more likely to lead to scenario 2 than sticking with our current approach is to lead to scenario 1. Ian. _______________________________________________ chat mailing list [email protected] Archived: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.general Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/chat Or mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe