solderpunk <solderpunk at SDF.ORG> writes: > On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 09:56:44AM -0400, Jason McBrayer wrote: > >> On the web, they make sense as a way of inlining short content, like >> icons, and avoiding a server round-trip. But obviously, they don't make >> sense for Gemini, and there's no reason clients should support them. > > There's no reason they *should*, but they can. And some of them will. > And then people will think of this as normal and expect it and design > their documents around it, and the snowball will roll... Can't we just say: "A spec-compliant client MUST NOT display data: URLs inline; a client MAY treat data: URLs as links to media, to be opened only on user request."? -- +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Jason F. McBrayer jmcbray at carcosa.net | | If someone conquers a thousand times a thousand others in | | battle, and someone else conquers himself, the latter one | | is the greatest of all conquerors. --- The Dhammapada |
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