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HTML as an escape hatch

Sean Conner sean at conman.org

Fri Sep 11 08:34:05 BST 2020

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It was thus said that the Great Stacy Harper once stated:

Hello,
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:
I think if you want additions, just use WWW. Gemini focus on content and
not formating.

If gemtext was focused on content and not formatting, it wouldn't haveheaders, lists, or pre-formatted areas.

My own websites:

http://www.conman.org/ http://www.conman.org/people/spc/ http://boston.conman.org/

uses straightforward HTML (4.01 if anyone cares), and while I do use someCSS for formatting, it still has a structure that is visible if you stripaway the CSS (on Firefox, if you go "View → Page Style → No Style" it isstill readable). And you would have to really hunt about my websites tofind the Javascript (it's there, just a very little bit of it).

WWW decadence was fun, let's never do it again :)

I think I'm one of the few left that actually like hypertext quahypertext. Sad. It's a neat concept.

-spc