Because of the textual nature of Gopher, there are clients for just about every type of computer imaginable, including a dumb terminal. No special graphics capabilities are needed to access the information contained within a Gopher system. Gopher systems can generally connect only to other Gopher servers. There are a few Gopher to WAIS and other gateways, but Gopher works best when talking to its own kind. This issue's column is found on page 22.
Web browsers are more visually-oriented.
As such, the most prominent Web clients are heavily graphic, although there are a few character-based clients being used. Not only will a Web client display textual information, it will also display certain types of images inside the client, and some clients will handle some forms of audio directly as well. But possibly the most important functional difference between Web and Gopher clients is that Web clients can access many other systems directly, such as FTP and Gopher. So it is possible to use a Web client to access a Gopher site in very much the same way as a Gopher client would access the site. That's a question that cannot be answered.