More silly text/gemini spec proposals

• 🗣️ From: Martin Bays (mbays (a) sdf.org)
• 📅 Sent: 2020-05-29 22:42
• 📧 Message 34 of 41

	
Friday, 2020-05-29 at 14:42 +0000 - solderpunk <solderpunk at SDF.ORG>:


>I tried *so* hard to avoid this, but you just can't.  This data:// URL
>thing is a monster.

One possible solution I haven't seen mentioned: make it part of the spec 
that the full URI of a link should (or even must) be displayed as part 
of any rendering of the link. That would hopefully be enough to thwart 
any slide towards data links being interpreted by some clients as inline 
images etc, since spec-respecting clients would render them as ugly long 
strings.

Personally I think this would be a good rule anyway -- as part of the 
user control dogma, the user should have full awareness of what request 
to what server following a link will result in.

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