Re: Firefox text/gemini

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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.

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