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Hannu Hartikainen hannu.hartikainen+gemini at gmail.com
Sun Jul 19 16:09:31 BST 2020
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On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 at 17:08, Solderpunk <solderpunk at posteo.net> wrote:
In an UI like AV-98, this approach works exceptionally well and provides
a look and feel that's almost indistinguishable from using a shell, or a
terminal application with a REPL interface. That's a very powerful
thing which we still haven't even begun to experiment with the power of.
I was going to post something like this. The paradigm chosen by Geminibasically prevents GUI or TUI like applications, but it's great forconsole use. The web is already a universal GUI application platform,so Gemini can be something else.
An interaction method like the one in AV-98 would be impossible forthe web but it's amazing for Gemini. I believe this is a strengthwe're only beginning to understand. For example, consider the hugerise of podcasts and audiobooks: people love to listen to information.With Gemini it would be trivial to browse with a headset whilecommuting. The web, on the other hand, is horrible for screen readeruse (ask any blind person).
On Sun, 19 Jul 2020 at 15:59, Paul Boyd <boyd.paul2 at gmail.com> wrote:
Your UNIX command-line comment is interesting. One set of input args is enough for UNIX, so maybe getopt style flags?
--name John --location "From Beyond" --comment "This is what I have to say"
I like this idea! It also makes me wonder if single-line-capable dataformats would be useful. Eg. edn {:name "Hannu" :comment "Helloworld!"} and YAML {name: Hannu, comment: Hello world!}. (Both dosuffer from unfamiliarity, though.) There must be a huge array ofalternatives, most of them better than my CSV idea.
-Hannu