Ashar Voultoiz wrote:
Gopher ? Seriously ? I will love that option, just to get back 10+ years later.
I think most mobil phone use WAP ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAP ) and I dont think they are going to support the 1991 gopher protocol. If it's every implemented, it will really be just for geeks ...
I agree with everyone else that trying to reinvigorate the gopher protocal is as good an idea as bringing back 8-tracks. I do remember once downloading a 3-D gopher client in 1995, where you could view the gopher world in three dimensions. I think it was called "GopherVR". It was supposed to be some kind of quantum leap in information user interfaces, and was going to keep the protocol from dying (snicker).
However, a WAP interface to the Wikipedia---I could definitely see using that. Does anyone know what is involved in making WAP interfaces? I could definitely see making a read-only interface to looking up information... as for editing via mobile phone, I think I'd rather stick knitting needles into my eyes.
Moreover, the [[Gopher]] en articles use ~ 13 KB wich might be compressed using the gzip option that mobil phone browser *might* support. I am not aware of gopher browser supporting compression. So that's non-sen ;)
-- David