It was thus said that the Great easeout at tilde.team once stated: > > This is a possible solution to the conflict, and I don't mind it. I do > think machine-readable on the top line and human-readable on the bottom > line is natural too, because we put captions beneath figures, and > because the top slot is already used in e.g. GitHub Markdown for > language specifiers. Luke Emmet wrote: > The pleasure of Gemini is there can be a genuine diversity of clients - > unlike the web. And back in the mid-90s, there *were* plenty of web clients. Easily a dozen that were easily available and that was back in time when it was easy enough to parse HTML, there was no CSS and no Javascript, and it was conceivable that someone could write a simple web browser in a weekend [1]. Then Sandra Snan sent the following link: https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope.html Wherein it's mentioned that the current "state of the web" is described by 114,000,000 words spread across 1,217 standards documents. You get here by incremental changes, all of which are "easy" and "it would be so nice." Also, don't forget that Gemini can *easily* serve up HTML documents. And Markdown documents. And PDF. And a host of other documentation formats that all do what you want to do. And then some. But hey, I can play this game. I added the following non-standard document: gemini://gemini.conman.org/test/preformat.gemini that contains "machine readable text" at the opening preformatted marker, and a "human readable text" on the ending preformatted marker, just to give an indication of what it might look like and what might be done with it. Enough talk, *someone* has to do an implementation to scare the bejeezus out of everyone (not that it's particularly scary in what I did). -spc (HTML people. Seriously, HTML. You want your format, you have it already ... ) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViolaWWW
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