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Luke Emmet luke.emmet at gmail.com

Sun May 17 10:53:33 BST 2020

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On 17-May-2020 09:40, solderpunk wrote:
> On Sat, May 16, 2020 at 02:55:25AM +0430, Ben wrote:
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> Or maybe Gemini should support in-line links of its own? It's already got
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> some markdown elements in other aspects of page formatting.
> I'm really not keen on adding in-line links.  It would significantly
> increase the effort involved in parsing text/gemini documents - instead
> of peeking at the first 3 characters of a line and then being able to
> handle it, every line has to be split up into words and each word tested
> individually.

I think certain common idioms can be implemented by a client as a UI pretification, for example the frequently seen square bracket citations could be expanded [like this] or this [1]. The community could encourage this idiom as it is very gemini-friendly.

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> scheme://domain/path1 [like this]=
> scheme://domain/path2 [1]

I'm working on a UI playground to explore some of these ideas, among others, hope to have something to show soon.

  - Luke