Re: OT: rude behaviour

glad you asked!=20

phetch (CLI)
https://github.com/xvxx/phetch
this client will render it as I intended without fail.

VF-1 (CLI)
https://sr.ht/~solderpunk/VF-1/
this client will render it as I intended without fail.

cgo (CLI)
https://github.com/kieselsteini/cgo
will render it almost perfectly, one minor glitch.

Lagrange (GUI)
https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/
ostensibly a Gemini protocol browser but it handles Gopher sites pretty =
well, including mine mostly successfully.

there's probably more out there but why am I doing the legwork for you? =
you are the Gopher users, this is the Gopher list, I only subscribed a =
couple days ago. if you didn't know any of this what were you using =
Gopher for aside from kicking the tires to confirm that yes indeed your =
server is still up even if no one remembers why.


regards

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> On 15 Nov 2025, at 10:11=E2=80=AFAM, Sean Conner <sean-/[email protected]> =
wrote:
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> It was thus said that the Great cat K. once stated:
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>> I wouldn't expect a DEC vt510 from 1993 to render my Gopher hole as I
>> intended in 2025 any more than I would expect Mosaic to properly =
render
>> YouTube.
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>  Do you expect any modern Gopher client to properly render your page?  =
The
> gopher browser I use (which I wrote) strips out ANSI escape codes as I
> consider them a security threat [1]. I still see the art, but it's not =
as
> colorful.  It was also easier to strip them out than to attempt to =
support
> ANSI escape codes [2].
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>  -spc
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> [1] There are defined escape sequences to issue application and
> operating system level commands.  There are also escape sequences
> (in the "privately defined" areas) that can load the cut buffers
> that could be problematic. Not all terminals or terminal emulators
> support such sequences, but some.  And at the very least, malicious
> pages could set the terminal into a useless state (say, setting the
> foreground and background colors the same).
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> [2] Technically, ECMA-48 (a European standard) as ANSI withdrew their
> version in favor of ECMA-48.
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