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Tuxman
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NANY 2018 Release: Gowser, a Gopher browser
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November 04, 2017, 04:57 PM »
NANY 2018
Entry Information
Application Name
Gowser
Short Description
A simple Gopher browser
Supported OSes
Compiled for Windows, would probably compile on *ix though
Web Page
https://bitbucket.org/tux_/gowser
(currently, source only)
System Requirements
Binary: Windows.
Source: Probably, Linux/Unix with GTK+ and Windows.
Version History
20171104: init. DC build, may or may not break.
Author
Description
'member Gopher? I 'member.
Why is Gopher Still Relevant?
Features
Gowser will browse Gopher.
Can make me procrastinate working on ymarks.
Planned Features
Support for image and sound files.
Support for Gopher's killer feature: searches.
Bookmarks.
Screenshots
NANY 2018 Release: Gowser, a Gopher browser
Usage
Installation
Unrar. Open the .exe. Enjoy.
Using the Application
Enter a Gopher URL.
Uninstallation
Remove the extracted .exe file.
Known Issues
Most of plain Gopher works, media files (images and sound files) don't (yet). As they rarely occur, I decided to postpone their implementation.
The one big advantage of Gopher towards HTTP is that you can easily search it. Maybe some day Gowser will support that, but it currently does
not
.
This build creates a debug log. If you experience crashes, you can send it to me or something.
There
are
crashes. Sorry.
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Last Edit: November 05, 2017, 01:34 PM by Tuxman
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smaragdus
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Re: NANY 2018 Release: Gowser, a Gopher browser
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Reply #1 on:
December 02, 2017, 08:22 PM »
@Tuxman
Thanks, but I think there is a lot to be desired:
Toolbar- Back, Forward, Refresh, etc;
Tabs;
Bookmarks;
History;
Icon (embedded in the executable and title bar);
but I am afraid that implementing these features would severely exceed the initial purpose for this program.
It seems that
Gowser
uses
Internet Explorer
.
For
Gopher
I use
OverbiteFF
(available at
Mozilla add-ons
)- it works with
Firefox
(prior to version
57
) and
SeaMonkey
.
Regards
Tuxman
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Re: NANY 2018 Release: Gowser, a Gopher browser
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Reply #2 on:
December 02, 2017, 08:37 PM »
Yes. (All of it, except:
It seems that
Gowser
uses
Internet Explorer
.
-smaragdus
(
December 02, 2017, 08:22 PM
)
^ this depends on the OS. Gowser's GUI is wrapped over
whatever is native
.)
Tuxman
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Re: NANY 2018 Release: Gowser, a Gopher browser
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December 23, 2017, 02:49 PM »
FYI: I had planned to write an Android version of Gowser for NANY '19. However, there already is an awesome Gopher client for Android which is exactly what I would have written:
https://play.google....afewroosloose.gopher
Tuxman
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Re: NANY 2018 Release: Gowser, a Gopher browser
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March 19, 2018, 08:28 AM »
FYI (2): There will not be a new Gowser version. The next version of what was Gowser will be a rewrite with a radically different approach and a lot of additional features.
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