On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 at 17:08, Solderpunk <solderpunk at posteo.net> wrote:
> In an UI like AV-98, this approach works exceptionally well and provides
> a look and feel that's almost indistinguishable from using a shell, or a
> terminal application with a REPL interface. That's a very powerful
> thing which we still haven't even begun to experiment with the power of.
I was going to post something like this. The paradigm chosen by Gemini
basically prevents GUI or TUI like applications, but it's great for
console use. The web is already a universal GUI application platform,
so Gemini can be something else.
An interaction method like the one in AV-98 would be impossible for
the web but it's amazing for Gemini. I believe this is a strength
we're only beginning to understand. For example, consider the huge
rise of podcasts and audiobooks: people love to listen to information.
With Gemini it would be trivial to browse with a headset while
commuting. The web, on the other hand, is horrible for screen reader
use (ask any blind person).
On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 at 15:59, Paul Boyd <boyd.paul2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Your UNIX command-line comment is interesting. One set of input args is
enough for UNIX, so maybe getopt style flags?
>
> --name John --location "From Beyond" --comment "This is what I have to say"
I like this idea! It also makes me wonder if single-line-capable data
formats would be useful. Eg. edn {:name "Hannu" :comment "Hello
world!"} and YAML {name: Hannu, comment: Hello world!}. (Both do
suffer from unfamiliarity, though.) There must be a huge array of
alternatives, most of them better than my CSV idea.
-Hannu
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