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It can't do whatever it wants. It can make responses for requests that would go to that particular website without actually making the request, that's it - that
by geofft 6y ago
It can't do whatever it wants. It can make responses for requests that would go to that particular website without actually making the request, that's it - that is, the website can provide some code that makes local responses on its behalf for things it could respond to anyway. It can't intercept (or even see) anything for other sites. That's a significant difference from installing executable code in the form of a standalone binary.
I do agree, more broadly, that there's a place in this world for a s web-like thing that only lets sites provide text and minimal formatting and doesn't let them run any code at all, even in a constrained/sandboxed environment. (https://gemini.circumlunar.space/ https://gemini.circumlunar.space/ seems like the most promising thing in this space.) But the web hasn't been that since 1995 when they released LiveScript.
- SyneRyder 6y agoThere's also the original pre-web Gopher protocol, which has been getting a lot more users since being mentioned on HN a few weeks ago together with Gemini. Gopher seems to appeal to people who like retro-computing - the TLS requirement of Gemini rules out even older Macs, nevermind the Apple IIs and Commodore 64s that can still access Gopher. For anyone curious, Phetch is a really good terminal-based browser for Gopher written in Rust [1], and Jaruzel's Gopher Browser For Windows is a very easy to use GUI browser that also supports image files. Both are under 1MB. (If you're running Haiku OS, Gopher is still built-in to the default WebPositive browser.) [1] https://github.com/xvxx/phetch https://github.com/xvxx/phetch [2] http://www.jaruzel.com/gopher/gopher-client-browser-for-windows http://www.jaruzel.com/gopher/gopher-client-browser-for-wind...