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Proposed minor spec changes, for comment.

plugd plugd at thelambdalab.xyz

Fri May 22 08:01:45 BST 2020

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jan6 at tilde.ninja writes:

I'd also be in favor of server handling it, although that is a kinda-valid point...

html doesn't count because the browsers will do their best to fix all kinds of TOTALLY BROKEN html,

you can have partial tags, no end tags for some, etc, and the browser will never tell the user your

site is a trashpile, it will just silently try its best to fix it up (even in inspect element,

you'd see the "repaired" version)...

And this is exactly what's going to happen with gemini too. The secondyou have

=2 clients around, there's going to be a race to accept thewidest range of content, regardless of errors. Besides pleaces where itputs users' privacy/security at risk, clients can never be expected topolice complience of the document with the spec. (After all, the clientuser is almost always someone entirely unresponsible for the generationof the document.)-------------- next part --------------A non-text attachment was scrubbed...Name: signature.ascType: application/pgp-signatureSize: 487 bytesDesc: not availableURL: <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/attachments/20200522/fe16b1ef/attachment-0001.sig>