> Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2021 14:56:22 +0000 > From: DJ Chase <u9000@posteo.mx> > To: Andrew Singleton <singletona082@gmail.com>, Devin Prater > <r.d.t.prater@gmail.com> > Cc: Gemini application layer protocol <gemini@lists.orbitalfox.eu>, > Roberto Soccoli <roberto.vpt@protonmail.com> > Subject: Re: A Gemini-style proposal > Message-ID: <e5620ac174b95cea0d66a62e0b8bf77e4027db34.camel@posteo.mx> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > On Wed, 2021-11-03 at 08:08 -0500, Andrew Singleton wrote: >> 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?' > > To be clear: I'm not proposing serving PDFs; I'm suggesting not to serve > HTML or Markdown (which is an HTML front-end, and can include HTML tags > such as `<script>`). > >>> 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: >>>> I?d 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. > > Also, this isn't a standard. It's aruably not even the defacto-standard. People have pointed out from early on that gemini is designed on the server side to serve text documents (as not-links, anyway), and if you need more than the native gemtext format has to offer, you are free to serve whatever text, be it Markdown or what have you. I think all the browsers will just display markdown in all its human-readable glory. Like if you view gemini pages is bombadillo, and headline just look like # Headline peteyboy@sdf.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org
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