Difference between gopher and gemini?
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- 📅 First Message: 2021-07-10 19:46
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1. (yosuu (a) tutanota.com)
- 📅 Sent: 2021-07-10 19:46
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What is the difference between gopher and gemini, what makes gemini better per say?
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2. Nathan Galt (mailinglists (a) ngalt.com)
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- 📅 Sent: 2021-07-10 22:10
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On Sat, Jul 10, 2021, at 12:46 PM, yosuu@tutanota.com wrote:
> What is the difference between gopher and gemini, what makes gemini
> better per say?
>
I took a look at the Gopher directory/list file format and ran away
screaming. Prefixing every single line with its type and hard-wrapping all
text lines? Aieeeeeee.
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3. Andrew Singleton (singletona082 (a) gmail.com)
- 📅 Sent: 2021-07-10 22:14
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This is why I never bothered with gopher in spite of it appealing to my
want for something simpler. Gemini suits my sensebilities while also being
far friendlier to work with.
Note: there are a lot of gopher people on the list so let's all be friendly.
Jul 10, 2021 5:10:49 PM Nathan Galt <mailinglists@ngalt.com>:
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2021, at 12:46 PM, yosuu@tutanota.com wrote:
>> What is the difference between gopher and gemini, what makes gemini
>> better per say?
>>
>
> I took a look at the Gopher directory/list file format and ran away
screaming. Prefixing every single line with its type and hard-wrapping all
text lines? Aieeeeeee.
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4. Michael Lazar (lazar.michael22 (a) gmail.com)
- 📅 Sent: 2021-07-11 19:14
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On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 3:47 PM <yosuu@tutanota.com> wrote:
>
> What is the difference between gopher and gemini, what makes gemini
better per say?
Off the top of my head...
- Actual, usable error codes (gopher's "3" is useless)
- A hypertext document that you can edit by hand
- A semantic document structure (headers, quotes, bullets, etc.)
- SUPPORT FOR MOBILE SCREEN SIZES
- Response mimetypes (no guessing what "binary" means)
- Response encodings (no guessing between UTF-8 and Latin-1)
- A reliable end-of-transmission marker (gopher's "." is useless)
- First class URL link support (no hURL hacks)
- A standard URL structure (most people parse gopher URLs wrong)
- Support for virtual hosting
- Mandated TLS encryption
- Support for sessions via client certificates
- Support for server redirects
- Michael (I love gopher by the way)
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