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From: Christian Seibold <krixano@mailbox.org>
Subject: Re: Firefox text/gemini
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2022 02:17:49 -0500
Message-ID: <ta3cus$jj0$2@gioia.aioe.org>
On 4/20/2022 1:55 PM, Jason McBrayer wrote:
news@zzo38computer.org.invalid writes:
> threeoh6000 <threeoh6000@news.eternal-september.org> wrote:
>> Are you using XPCOM with this because that's was retired ages ago AFAIK.
> Yes, but I am using a old version of Firefox. (WebExtensions does not seem
> to do everything that I want it to do. Do you know if it does?)
You can't write a WebExtension that's a Gemini client, because JS
doesn't have access to raw sockets. For this same reason, the current
version of the OverBite extension for Gopher isn't a complete solution
in itself; it rewrites URLs which are then served by the Floodgap
Gopher-to-HTTP proxy.
JavaScript is starting to add things for sockets now, and Mozilla had
this thing a while ago where they were trying to implement dweb
(distributed web) protocols into Firefox. I'm not sure if they continued
this though, or how far along JS Sockets are.
Parent:
Re: Firefox text/gemini (by Jason McBrayer <jmcbray@carcosa.net> on Wed, 20 Apr 2022 14:55:06 -0400)
Start of thread:
Firefox text/gemini (by news@zzo38computer.org.invalid on Sat, 05 Mar 2022 09:42:23 -0800)