I've been reading an offline version of the guardian for my whole life, it's pretty nifty.
Building an Offline Page for Theguardian.com
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Re: Building an Offline Page for Theguardian.com
#12If you clear your cache while your Internet connection is off, this won't work.
Re: Building an Offline Page for Theguardian.com
#13I am not up to date on this kind of technology, but reading the article, this sound terrible! Not the guardians implementation, but the concept of locally "caching", though I would call it installing, executable code, that can then intercept network requests and basically do whatever it wants? Why would we think this is a good idea? I am not surprised by Chrome doing something like this. But firefox too? I hope this…
It can't do whatever it wants. It can make responses for requests that would go to that particular website without actually making the request, that's it - that is, the website can provide some code that makes local responses on its behalf for things it could respond to anyway . It can't intercept (or even see) anything for other sites. That's a significant difference from installing executable code in the form of a…
There's also the original pre-web Gopher protocol, which has been getting a lot more users since being mentioned on HN a few weeks ago together with Gemini. Gopher seems to appeal to people who like retro-computing - the TLS requirement of Gemini rules out even older Macs, nevermind the Apple IIs and Commodore 64s that can still access Gopher.
For anyone curious, Phetch is a really good terminal-based browser for Gopher written in Rust [1], and Jaruzel's Gopher Browser For Windows is a very easy to use GUI browser that also supports image files. Both are under 1MB. (If you're running Haiku OS, Gopher is still built-in to the default WebPositive browser.)
[1] https://github.com/xvxx/phetch
[2] http://www.jaruzel.com/gopher/gopher-client-browser-for-wind...