Geminisphere

On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 11:35 AM Alex // nytpu <alex at nytpu.com> wrote:


> It's funny
> because http actually had client certificates first too (TLS RFC dated
> August 2008) and then decided that cookies were definitely needed
> (Cookies RFC dated April 2011).
>

Standardization in the HTTP/HTML world has until very recently been a
matter of trying to catch up with what the browser authors are doing.  Now
the standardizers (the WhatWG) *are* the browser authors.

> This is an excellent idea, and you don't even need to extend the spec
> for this.
>

Thank you.  It's something I've been thinking about since Gopher days, but
Gemini makes it much easier.  Another addition is for a client to add a
link to a page that you jumped away from by manually entering an URL that
points to the page you went to (this would be a forward link).

> Caching? Done. Backlinks? Of course!


There's another idea that goes with the above; have an "itinerary server"
that has access to a specific user's backlinks and cache.  That way you can
publish your personal view of Geminispace, with the pages as they were when
you saw them and your whole path traceable by whoever you give access to
the server.



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Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau,
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