From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for forums? Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 07:27:08 +0200 Message-ID: <20180706052708.GB30658@tuxteam.de> References: <87y3eryk80.fsf@openmail.cc> <874lhfop7f.fsf@127.0.0.1> <87in5vbzv3.fsf@openmail.cc> <8736wycp8h.fsf@openmail.cc> <9FC04800-4439-485E-A718-03566E9814E3@gmail.com> <87y3epb6xd.fsf@openmail.cc> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1530854758 20877 195.159.176.226 (6 Jul 2018 05:25:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 05:25:58 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 06 07:25:54 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fbJFf-0005J8-JT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2018 07:25:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55835 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fbJHm-0005Ak-JA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2018 01:28:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59893) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fbJH9-0005AQ-D8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2018 01:27:24 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fbJH4-0006bg-GU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2018 01:27:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:59285) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fbJH4-0006IM-6E for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2018 01:27:18 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tuxteam.de; s=mail; h=From:In-Reply-To:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:To:Date; bh=Mr7CyelxZDMZAC6U2Gs9cqKqKgF1D1HvdIaH5SMmom4=; b=XehonB1mVUTirRKSPEAfxICranFWcuqVutOVJyuhdxh/kPVhTw7K1/VEfH4W6j9RrKIml4k+UGBxjQ2h9eHRPphddSjHIKxfBtLxDfLE+QhfLeU9oRAY2W/mUMwv4hMaLmWP9L2v+ZqDNfcn01X67r48+6vVjVNuYgMIRyr2mDqaA2wtMfUxrdID4VXVJ1rtHllrIbWDKk2KFhWApujiaip1cshYkxVgNsyMaW9Qo/shFFXKpUekvh9jriEsJ8Epbvb0qzqyGTOH+sCaFaYZVsDepEBEq6L3OvPxYWj/8apd4DO0Ec9HisHCwfm30/w9e3MomwulJ9O5BuitoMEJAg==; Original-Received: from tomas by mail.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1fbJGu-00088y-Ka for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 06 Jul 2018 07:27:08 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 5.199.139.25 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117370 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 06:37:37PM -0500, Skip Montanaro wrote: > Count me in as someone who would appreciate a non-native interface to > forums. Agreed. There's a war going on between the Web on the one side, which wants me to "experience" a web site as a designer (and its Vulture -- uh Venture Capitalists) want me to "see" (and sometimes to hear) it and me, on the other side, who just wants to get at its information in the (for me) most convenient form possible. If I want an "experience", I go to the movies, thankyouverymuch. > In addition to wanting an interface better integrated with > Usenet and email, some of the forum sites have annoying properties it > would be nice to paper over. Very politely put. Sometimes I feel the web site designers would reach directly to my neurons if the current "HTML5" had an interface (they call that "API") for that. > Do any of these forum sites support > REST-ish APIs? How do phone-based apps like Tapatalk communicate with > these forum sites? Are they just glorified web scrapers? I think the current situation is that they use "frameworks" which integrate front-end and back-end more and more tightly. Still, there is a limited offer of those frameworks and most of them are free, thus I think there's a chance... yet. The next phase will be that the whole front-end/back-end combo will be compiled as a huge impenetrable Web Assembly mess. Then, our window will close. Perhaps it opens again when some strange form of AI is capable of reverse engineering that kind of abomination. Sometimes I'm glad I'm old. Cheers - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAls+/awACgkQBcgs9XrR2kY48ACeIMVyon6Az4Pft1xk+PluUH0J z84AnjjAmdZrPHv4IvDlpsQInXKc38wq =ONsq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----