On Sat, 7 Nov 2020 18:45:10 +0100 fluxion <fluxion at monocles.de> wrote: > 1) I agree that browsers are a nightmare, and I am worried that > Mozilla falls or shrinks and firefox with it. They are having > some financial troubles, I am told. So the idea of a beginning > from scratch is GREAT. Lower your expectations, this probably wont replace the web, but I hope it does one day. > 3) I am a mathematical physicist and use a lot of equations > and data visualization. As a scientist, how can I use gemini? > For equations, I usually use MathJax. Talk about bloating!!! > It is great but it is huge. There are alternatives, but none > is near close to a plain text solution. We also have a set > of utilities like tex2mail, which converts LaTeX into ascii > or unicode art, but... it is really ugly and inconvenient. > > [...] > > what about a matrix or a more involved code? > Is this up to us or is there a way to integrate this without > adding excessive complication? > > What about data? The only thing that comes to me now is to > use Python's Sympy, which can render LaTeX equations in > ascii and also data graphics. I get it... You're confused, Gemini is a protocol, not a document format, gemtext (text/gemini) is the document format used by default within the Gemini protocol, but there's nothing stopping you from serving LaTeX formatted PDFs through Gemini, or for that matter, any format. > 4) What about musicians, or artists? I am not talking about > music score, which even in html has never been offered a nice > solution (that I know of). But audio? Is it possible to > have audio? I mean, no need for the browser to play it, but > to link it? And what about artistic expression? As much as > I love plain text and black and white, many Sapiens consider > design and style a very important thing. Will these communities > feel excluded from gemini because of extreme (I like extreme) > simplicity? I am sure I still have a lot to learn here. > Sometimes I use ncurses just to have some nice colors in my > terminal. My question here is: is the style and design of > the page enforced by the protocol, the client or the page > itself? IMHO a plain text browser in which each page could > define background and text color would be really awesome. Read the FAQ: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi Gemtext is just a document format, styling is left for the client to decide, stylesheets are not a thing here, unless you want to use Gemini to serve HTML+CSS which you can do, but I wouldn't recommend. For example, here's what Gemini looks like on my client: https://ttm.sh/dt8.png, this page could look totally different on someone else's client, they decide how to style content displayed on their client, not the author. > 5) I love design and colors, but most of all I love content, > and I think that gemini is a refocus on content. And I love > it, with or without colors, with or without math. But my dream? > A minimalistic browsing with page-defined colors and with > some easiness to integrate math and graphics with plain text. No.
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