Re: AWeb (dislikes and what should be fixed ;)

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From: Osma Ahvenlampi
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 16:17

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In article <19960331.E18D688.15506@hydra.zrz.tu-berlin.de> starecjc@hydra.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE (Flexy) writes:
>Why shouldnt a webbrowser like ibrowse or aweb not implement such
>protocols (gopher://, ftp://, news:// etc.) also ?

When it makes sense to build them in, build them in. When it makes
more sense to use some other application, designed for that task, use
the other application. For example, I am quite happy using Voodoo for
mail (I should be, since I wrote it, after all). I wouldn't be happy
to use programs that wanted to do mail outside Voodoo, since I want it
all in one place, and have Voodoo saving copies of sent messages. So,
mail support in other programs would be bloat to me. Quite similarly,
I have good tools for FTP and news (although for news the tool isn't
on the Amiga), and I don't want to change them. Support for these in
other programs would be useless waste of memory and development time.

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