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The Problems of Transclusion (was Re: More silly text/gemini spec proposals)

Sean Conner sean at conman.org

Thu Jun 11 22:55:54 BST 2020

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It was thus said that the Great Petite Abeille once stated:

On May 30, 2020, at 04:41, Sean Conner <sean at conman.org> wrote:
NO INLINING OF LINKS ALLOWED!
Meanwhile, back on the interweb:
http://subpixel.space/entries/open-transclude/

Yes, but note that it only works within a certain context and is not ageneral solution to transclusion. Also, the transclusion is done by theclient. A Gemini server *could* implement transclusion behind the scenes.

Also:
https://subpixel.space/entries/introducing-quotebacks/

I do this now. If you check this post of mine:

http://boston.conman.org/2020/03/23.2

you should see a blockquote that links back to the original article. And ifyou check the source, you'll see I used the CITE attribute in the BLOCKQUOTEtag to *also* link to the source.

Furthermore, when I use Firefox on Linux, I can highlight the portion of apage I want to quote, and using a special program, grab not only the HTMLfrom the clipboard [1] but the URL, use that to grab the page again for thetitle, and automatically generate the BLOCKQUOTE for me.

-spc (Amazing what's hidden under the hood, so to speak)

[1] The X Windows selection mechanism is quote sophisticated and supports multiple MIME types (no, really!). I have some text highlighted in Firefox (under Linux) right now, and I can grab (among other values):

text/html With the HTML UTF8_STRING sans HTML text/x-moz-url URL of the page

You can read more about it here:

https://www.jwz.org/doc/x-cut-and-paste.html