More silly text/gemini spec proposals

On 5/29/20 2:42 PM, solderpunk wrote:
> I tried *so* hard to avoid this, but you just can't.

Perhaps I'm missing something, but I don't think we've got a really big
problem here. Links can link to anything; sure, but a client deciding to
inline their display will create a monster of a user experience even if
they try to do it with simple images. There's no sizing at work. There's
no positioning available. If a site tries to very carefully link to
images in a way designed to be inlined, a hundred more will not be doing
that. The client's attempts to display those things will break browsing
for its users and, hopefully, not gain popularity.

If someone wants to do something edge-casey that only works in very
specific situations then cool. I don't see it as a threat to gemini
because of the guardrails you already have in place.

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