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Luke Emmet luke at marmaladefoo.com
Sun Jun 21 16:18:50 BST 2020
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On 21-Jun-2020 14:49, Frank LENORMAND wrote:
On Sun Jun 21 16:33:02 2020, Luke Emmet wrote:
Just to let you know there is a new release of GemiNaut out today.
Mostly minor fixes and improvements, but with a new gorgeous dark theme
and bookmarks, there are both usability and aesthetic improvements for
everyone. You can also now create your own custom themes if you wish.
It's a bit ironic that theming relies on HTML and CSS.Perhaps, but I don't think so. HTML and CSS is just an implementation detail that allows for a very flexible way to present structured textual content. I'd rather focus on building the nicest experience that focusses on readability in a broad sense.
To express the elements needed for building the user experience in GemiNaut I would need: font colour, font face, font size, padding, margin, border, underline, hanging indent, block float, text wrap behaviour, tooltips. I think I've just reinvented a wheel, and now I need to invent a layout and behavioural engine to interpret said language. Hang on, my OS can do that for me, so I can spend more time thinking about other stuff...
My intention in creating the themes in GemiNaut is to provide some good ones that will suit a wide range of users, but once you have that flexibility it seems no reason not to let users do their own if they have strong opinions on typesetting and layout etc.
I think there's room here for a minimal language that would allow applying
colours/decoration to arbitrary Gemini contents without depending on the
HTML/CSS pair.Might be nice, but I'm not sure its necessary or whether it would be widely adopted by all the different clients. Each client is going to have its own options for how content is styled and presented. Its not just about H1 font and colour is X + Y.
I don't have any suggestions (yet), but I think Gemini browser authors
have an opportunity to come up with a minimalist syntax geared for Gemini
contents that isn't as convoluted and rich as CSS.
What do you think?I think you might as well start from a subset of CSS if you want the flexibility beyond basic styles. Or if you want something basic, maybe just a list of fonts colours and sizes. But that still leaves out elements of whitespace, margins etc.
Best Wishes
- Luke