On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 03:05:47PM +0000, solderpunk wrote: Regarding: > Heck, wiki nerds could write their own clients which can launch an > editor pointed at a local copy of the resource being viewed, then > calculate a diff in some format and submit *that* as a query, and the > wiki software the server runs could apply the diff. and: > It should also be very easy to write an app targetted at "non-technical" > authors which lets them submit chunks of writing up to 2 KiB or so, with > an "append" link at the submission confirmation page to submit a follow > up chunk. It wouldn't necessarily be the smoothest experience in the > world, but if most content could be written in a single request and 99% > with one or two "append" requests, I think it would be usable enough. I realise this works a heck of a lot better for textual content than base64-encoded binary content, where uploading, say, a JPG photograph would require many, many chunks. I think I'm okay with this. Gemini is deliberately and unapologetically a text-first protocol. Cheers, Solderpunk
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