Re: Gopher support in X Mosaic, cosmetic suggestion
Martin Hamilton <M.T.Hamilton@lut.ac.uk>
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Resent-From: Richard W Wiggins <WIGGINS@msu.edu>
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Subject: Re: Gopher support in X Mosaic, cosmetic suggestion
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Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 14:23:10 +0100 (BST)
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From: Martin Hamilton <M.T.Hamilton@lut.ac.uk>
Hear hear! The Gopher client for the Next is a good model in this
respect.
/Rich Wiggins, Gopher Coordinator, Michigan State U
(PS -- hmmm... Gopher discussions in the Mime group, Gopher-related
suggestions for Mosaic in the WWW group -- maybe the IIIR dream
is taking hold!)
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Said Ed:
/ Currently if you connect to a gopher you get a title in the Document Title
/ part of the screen, but only a "select one of" headline in the main
/ screen. This is kind of, well, not terribly attractive.
How about in-lined images of the gopher object types? It's a bit
difficult to navigate when you have to guess which button is an
index, and which is a directory, and ... :-)
Martin