On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 02:02:42PM +0200, Dmitrij Czarkoff wrote: > Well, I meant the networking part of gopher, not its menu system.
Oh good, OK, yes I was refering to its menu system. I don't know anything about how it does networking. > BTW it would be nice to have some syntax-free menu system for the web to > avoid the nightmarish onsite navigation one may find on every other site > out there. Hyperlinks still are needed though. Yes. Some site map or apache index style thing that was wholely standard and couldn't be "styled" would be very useful. Coupled with a reliable "print view", you could avoid much of what makes websites so annoying. While modern web technologies enable many terrible things, they in theory can provide a reasonable environment. It's the web designers who are primarily responsible for ruining things. And those who pay them.