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Re: Firefox text/gemini

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From: krixano@mailbox.org (Christian Seibold)
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Subject: Re: Firefox text/gemini
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2022 02:17:49 -0500
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by: Christian Seibold - Wed, 6 Jul 2022 07:17 UTC

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.

Subject	Author
Re: Firefox text/gemini	Christian Seibold