HTML as an escape hatch

On 9/15/20 2:50 PM, Matthew Graybosch wrote:
> Hell, you could probably just use pandoc and a makefile if you know
> what you're doing.
I do that for my website (gemini://irth.pl / https://irth.pl).
Gemini is simple enough to write a converter for yourself in like, two
evenings:

 ? https://git.r23s.eu/wojciech/gm2html
 ? (I don't have a Gemini git front-end set up yet, excuse me :))

I run it with a Makefile to generate .html files, and I wrote some nice 
CSS to
style it: https://github.com/irth/website/blob/master/Makefile

For relative links it changes the .gmi extension to .html automatically, so
links work well on both versions.

If anyone wants, you can borrow my CSS, I'll probably add an MIT license 
and a
README to the repos when I find some time and willpower.


> It's still not that hard to create a static website if that's what
> people really want to do. I just wonder if they've forgotten how.
It is possible, but having a specification that forces you to do that allows
the reader to have some expectations before clicking a link. If I see a
gemini:// link, I know I won't have to sit through a few seconds of 
loading up
all the javascript before seeing the text :)

-- 
Wojciech ~irth Kwolek

- gemini://irth.pl
- https://irth.pl
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