On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 12:22:07PM +0100, Luke Emmet wrote: > Any feedback and further thoughts welcome. > Thanks a lot for sharing this! Even as a "terminal junkie" myself I am really happy to see more "user friendly" clients appear, especially for more mainstream platforms. I am very excited to see that people are starting to explore the possibilities for client-driven styling of Geminispace. Slight differences in appearance for different domains, and also for links into/out of Geminispace are both excellent ideas. I'm curious about the blue and white geomeric icon shown in your screenshot for the "fabric" theme. Is that randomly generated based on the hostname? Is it the result of a failed favicon request, or is it always there in that theme? Something no client has done yet, as far as I know, which I think would be great is to make use of the different levels of heading which are possible in text/gemini to automatically generate a "table of contents" for a long document which could be displayed in a side-panel, and allow immediate jumping to a particular location. A lot of PDF viewers have something like this. This was just as big a motivation for my decision to include those headers in the spec as that they look nice. My hope is that with good clients it ends up being extremely easy to make geminisites which are very quick and easy to navigate or, at the very least, requires a concerted effort to make one which is hard to navigate. I would also like to see - and this is just my personal preference, which I hope people agree with but which I can't force anybody to share - better support in clients for bookmarking and for handling Atom/RSS feeds. The mainstream web experience has tended towards people having their browsing directed for them, by things popping up on feeds hosted by (a small number of) other people. There's obviously some value in this for content discovery and discussion, but I think it would also be nice if, along with the technical changes at a protocol level to discourage tracking, reduce software and hardware requirements, and generally remove bloat and clutter, Gemini could also be a vehicle for a "cultural change" toward (among other things!) more self-directed and self-paced reading. But we'll see how that goes. Anyway, this looks like a great project with really interesting plans. Please keep us informed! Cheers, Solderpunk
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