Re: Visual navigation possibilities with GopherVR for Macintosh and Unix (fwd)

[Jill Foster <[e-mail]>]

At 1:21 pm 3/4/95, C.K.Work wrote:
>Speaking from a site which has just committed to WWW (more or less
>bypassing Gopher) I'm intrigued to see that such effort is being put
>into Gopher - the implicatation of the Jill's message is that gopher & WWW are
>alternate routes to the same end. Unless I'm misunderstanding things,
>this is not the case. WWW as a technology surely offers much more than
>Gopher can - both now, but perhaps more importantly in terms of scope
>for development. At present Gopher space is effectively a subset of Web
>space, and this will remain the case until Gopher clients can read html
>(in which case won't they be Web clients?).

I don't want to get into this argument - but there are those who believe
gopher is the way to go and those that think WWW is. No point in arguing -
it's like the mailing list v net news arguments. Both have their pros and
cons and both have their followers.

I believe there are URL savvy gopher clients too.

It isn't black and white as to what is best. We're still moving more and
more to WWW with Mailbase (from gopher) - but gopher still has a great deal
of development effort going into it. All I'm saying is that it's worth
keeping an eye on it still.


-- Jill