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Re: Gopher support in X Mosaic, cosmetic suggestion

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hamilton)
Sat Jun 12 18:46:54 1993

Resent-From: Richard W Wiggins <WIGGINS@msu.edu>
Resent-To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1993 14:23:10 +0100 (BST)
From: Martin Hamilton <M.T.Hamilton@lut.ac.uk>

Hear hear!  The Gopher client for the Next is a good model in this
respect.

/Rich Wiggins, Gopher Coordinator, Michigan State U

(PS -- hmmm... Gopher discussions in the Mime group, Gopher-related
suggestions for Mosaic in the WWW group -- maybe the IIIR dream
is taking hold!)

----------------------------Original message----------------------------
Said Ed:

/ Currently if you connect to a gopher you get a title in the Document Title
/ part of the screen, but only a "select one of" headline in the main
/ screen.  This is kind of, well, not terribly attractive.

How about in-lined images of the gopher object types?  It's a bit
difficult to navigate when you have to guess which button is an
index, and which is a directory, and ... :-)

Martin

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