I thought this was using Motif based on the screenshots. Man, imagine how much lighter it could be if it was actually using the motif toolkit
Castor: A browser for the small internet (Gemini, Gopher, Finger)
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Re: Castor: A browser for the small internet (Gemini, Gopher, Finger)
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Re: Castor: A browser for the small internet (Gemini, Gopher, Finger)
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was delighted when I saw that Gemini is maintained by someone on SDF (named Solderpunk, never heard of him before). This seems as good a time as any to plug https://sdf.org , a great little community which has the feel of a 90s BBS that never went offline.
The site isn't at www.sdf.org for the record, it's just at sdf.org. There's a big difference in what you'll find!
Don't know how I missed that, I've updated my link!
Re: Castor: A browser for the small internet (Gemini, Gopher, Finger)
#14I've made my own Gopher client[0] some time ago, but TBH after the novelty of making it, eventually i abandoned it because i couldn't find anything interesting in there. The most interesting stuff were either gateways from the web or blogs which also had a web version.
On the other hand it was fun making it with how ridiculously simple the Gopher protocol is. Sadly it seems that "Gemini" requires TLS that kills that simplicity - Gopher can implemented by anyone, TLS... i think it is a bit harder.
Re: Castor: A browser for the small internet (Gemini, Gopher, Finger)
#15I've made my own Gopher client[0] some time ago, but TBH after the novelty of making it, eventually i abandoned it because i couldn't find anything interesting in there. The most interesting stuff were either gateways from the web or blogs which also had a web version. On the other hand it was fun making it with how ridiculously simple the Gopher protocol is. Sadly it seems that "Gemini" requires TLS that kills that…
Gemini allows clients to function without TLS, but it limits their access/functionality.
I'd be very interested in seeing an attempt at a minimal, portable standalone implementation of TLS suitable for Gemini's needs.
Re: Castor: A browser for the small internet (Gemini, Gopher, Finger)
#16I've made my own Gopher client[0] some time ago, but TBH after the novelty of making it, eventually i abandoned it because i couldn't find anything interesting in there. The most interesting stuff were either gateways from the web or blogs which also had a web version. On the other hand it was fun making it with how ridiculously simple the Gopher protocol is. Sadly it seems that "Gemini" requires TLS that kills that…
Gemini allows clients to function without TLS, but it limits their access/functionality. I'd be very interested in seeing an attempt at a minimal, portable standalone implementation of TLS suitable for Gemini's needs.
BearSSL is pretty tiny, though I haven't looked at it beyond a glance at the homepage after a friend linked it. Is it what you had in mind?
Re: Castor: A browser for the small internet (Gemini, Gopher, Finger)
#17I thought this was using Motif based on the screenshots. Man, imagine how much lighter it could be if it was actually using the motif toolkit
I thought so too. Are they running Gtk on mvwm?
Re: Castor: A browser for the small internet (Gemini, Gopher, Finger)
#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Gemini allows clients to function without TLS, but it limits their access/functionality. I'd be very interested in seeing an attempt at a minimal, portable standalone implementation of TLS suitable for Gemini's needs.
BearSSL is pretty tiny, though I haven't looked at it beyond a glance at the homepage after a friend linked it. Is it what you had in mind? https://bearssl.org/
Could be promising. I'll do some reading. Thanks, kick!
Re: Castor: A browser for the small internet (Gemini, Gopher, Finger)
#19For anyone curious, because Gemini is relatively new and kind of has flown under the radar: ### 1.1 What is Gemini? Gemini is a new application-level internet protocol for the distribution of arbitrary files, with some special consideration for serving a lightweight hypertext format which facilitates linking between files. Gemini is intended to be simple, but not necessarily as simple as possible. Instead, the design…
I was delighted when I saw that Gemini is maintained by someone on SDF (named Solderpunk, never heard of him before). This seems as good a time as any to plug https://sdf.org , a great little community which has the feel of a 90s BBS that never went offline.
Speaking of great little BBS-like communities, Solderpunk is actually the admin of zaibatsu.circumlunar.space.
Re: Castor: A browser for the small internet (Gemini, Gopher, Finger)
#20> written in Rust with GTK.
This is overhead: worst lang + worst toolkit + worst platform support.
Do not hesitate to use Links2.[0]