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HTML as an escape hatch

Nathan Galt mailinglists at ngalt.com

Fri Sep 11 07:17:19 BST 2020

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There’s a persistent worry on other threads that Gemini might become “too complex”, for some definition of “complex”.

This is a reasonable worry, considering the very complicated mess we’re all running from.

On the other hand, I think there’s a fairly, if not fully, general counterargument to all sorts of additions that we might want to make to the spec:

“There’s nothing wrong — or even uncool — about making a website with only HTML and, at most, 30 lines of CSS that looks great in Lynx.”

Thoughts? Counterarguments?