I'm reminded of the guy that went 'the internet is shit. return to PDF' and everyone else just 'PDF is terrible for a long list of reasons.' So I ask now the same question as then without further rhetoric. 'Why?' On 11/3/21 8:05 AM, Devin Prater wrote: > Do we have to go PDF? Oh dear God. Okay if they're textual in nature, sure. But you know someone is gonna start uploading scans. I mean people can do that in HTML kinda, but thankfully it's harder to do. > Devin Prater > r.d.t.prater@gmail.com <mailto:r.d.t.prater@gmail.com> > > > > > On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 9:35 AM DJ Chase <u9000@posteo.mx <mailto:u9000@posteo.mx>> wrote: > > On Mon, 2021-11-01 at 12:41 +0100, Alex Schroeder wrote: > > Iād say no. The functionality of Gemini is pretty much done. > > Also, that's not line-oriented. > > > People are of course free to write their own clients that do > their own > > processing. But the standard is: if you need that, serve Markdown or > > HTML documents instead of extending Gemtext. > > Side note: I think it's best to serve PDFs instead of other markup > languages because everyone can view PDFs. Many people don't have a > markdown viewer/compiler installed, and serving HTML is, in my > opinion, > overkill for Gemini. > > -- DJ Chase > They, Them, Theirs > -- ----- http://singletona082.flounder.online gemini://singletona082.flounder.online My online presence
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