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RFC Reader

77 points by r4um 12y ago

_RPM 12y ago
Very Cool! Serious question, I don't meant to sound rude, but what are the advantages of signing up?
- mburns 12y ago
  Tags, Commenting, Bookmarking and Sharing menu items all require being signed in.
sanxiyn 12y ago
It doesn't seem to be up to date. For example, RFC 7230 (current version of HTTP/1.1) is missing from the index.
Zardoz84 12y ago
qrfcview
- saghul 12y ago
  <shameless plug> I made it look nicer on OSX a few years ago: https://github.com/saghul/qrfcview-osx https://github.com/saghul/qrfcview-osx Which reminds me I should bring it up to date... </plug>
rspeer 12y ago
Something's weird about the links. I can't middle-click them to open in a new window. Edit: In fact, there's a lot about this site that seems to use JS to replace basic functionality of the Web, incompletely, without providing the same UX. I expected I'd be able to search through titles on the current page using ctrl+F, for example, but that doesn't work because of the "infinite scroll" thing it's trying to do. Why do that? Infinite scroll on top of pagination seems completely redundant, and the list of all RFC titles is a finite and relatively small chunk of data anyway.
- teh_klev 12y ago
  I agree, my initial thoughts were "oh nice", then after two minutes trying to use it I thought it was an example of how to cram in as many UI anti-patterns as possible.
- mercer 12y ago
  Yeah, this site is a good showcase of how one shouldn't override 'native' functionality unless absolutely necessary.
- pjc50 12y ago
  Fortunately, the authoritative RFC index works just fine for both of those: http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/ http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/
- Gracana 12y ago
  Can you give an example? It all seems to work fantastically for me in Firefox 34.0.5 on Windows 7. I'm not usually a fan of single page applications, but after digging through this for a while, it seems very nice.
  - McGlockenshire 12y ago
    > Can you give an example? Get to any list of RFCs. Right click, middle click, ctrl+click, or do anything other than left click on the "link" to the RFC you want to read. They are not real links. They can not be opened in new windows.
    - Gracana 12y ago
      Oh, yep, you're right. I could have sworn I tried that, but apparently I did not.
tibu 12y ago
It would be good to get somehow the latest RFC easily. When I search for SMTP I had to jump through several obsolete RFCs to find the latest one.
rhizome31 12y ago
This looks awesome. I've always wanted something like this.
worklogin 12y ago
It's a good idea with several issues so far. --- Sample: RFC 7381 - Enterprise IPv6 Deployment Guidelines Searching 'ipv6', 'ipv6 enterprise' and 'enterprise ipv6' don't show the result. Searching the number does. --- I can't use page down/page up to navigate the results.

RFC Reader

77 points by r4um 12y ago

_RPM 12y ago

Very Cool! Serious question, I don't meant to sound rude, but what are the advantages of signing up?

mburns 12y ago
Tags, Commenting, Bookmarking and Sharing menu items all require being signed in.

sanxiyn 12y ago

It doesn't seem to be up to date. For example, RFC 7230 (current version of HTTP/1.1) is missing from the index.

Zardoz84 12y ago

qrfcview

saghul 12y ago
<shameless plug> I made it look nicer on OSX a few years ago: https://github.com/saghul/qrfcview-osx https://github.com/saghul/qrfcview-osx Which reminds me I should bring it up to date... </plug>

rspeer 12y ago

Something's weird about the links. I can't middle-click them to open in a new window. Edit: In fact, there's a lot about this site that seems to use JS to replace basic functionality of the Web, incompletely, without providing the same UX. I expected I'd be able to search through titles on the current page using ctrl+F, for example, but that doesn't work because of the "infinite scroll" thing it's trying to do. Why do that? Infinite scroll on top of pagination seems completely redundant, and the list of all RFC titles is a finite and relatively small chunk of data anyway.

teh_klev 12y ago
I agree, my initial thoughts were "oh nice", then after two minutes trying to use it I thought it was an example of how to cram in as many UI anti-patterns as possible.
mercer 12y ago
Yeah, this site is a good showcase of how one shouldn't override 'native' functionality unless absolutely necessary.
pjc50 12y ago
Fortunately, the authoritative RFC index works just fine for both of those: http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/ http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/
Gracana 12y ago
Can you give an example? It all seems to work fantastically for me in Firefox 34.0.5 on Windows 7. I'm not usually a fan of single page applications, but after digging through this for a while, it seems very nice.
- McGlockenshire 12y ago
  > Can you give an example? Get to any list of RFCs. Right click, middle click, ctrl+click, or do anything other than left click on the "link" to the RFC you want to read. They are not real links. They can not be opened in new windows.
  - Gracana 12y ago
    Oh, yep, you're right. I could have sworn I tried that, but apparently I did not.

tibu 12y ago

It would be good to get somehow the latest RFC easily. When I search for SMTP I had to jump through several obsolete RFCs to find the latest one.

rhizome31 12y ago

This looks awesome. I've always wanted something like this.

worklogin 12y ago

It's a good idea with several issues so far. --- Sample: RFC 7381 - Enterprise IPv6 Deployment Guidelines Searching 'ipv6', 'ipv6 enterprise' and 'enterprise ipv6' don't show the result. Searching the number does. --- I can't use page down/page up to navigate the results.