Thoughts

jes!

Browser vendors might have made this decision because gopher is so old and hasn't had any recent improvements. Most people still using gopher:// are on university networks. It definately isn't a feature for the general public, and so in that sense, I can understand why they're choosing to remove it--more code to maintain and bugfix. On the other side, I can see how much of a pain it would be if I did use gopher:// and everyone discontinued support for it. I don't think protocols should have to be handled by different programs, either. That's what I like about opera. It can handle mailto://, http(s):// and read-only ftp://.