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More silly text/gemini spec proposals

solderpunk solderpunk at SDF.ORG

Fri May 29 14:15:33 BST 2020

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On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 09:35:20AM +0000, solderpunk wrote:

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 06:34:29AM +0200, Petite Abeille wrote:
Ohhh... shiny!
data: urls could be perhaps an interesting way to inline content in text/gemini... LOLcats at long last! :D
Let's see what else is hiding in those marvelous URI schemes:
...let's not take delight in actively trying to crush the spirit of this
thing? I mean, the web is right there if that's what you want.

Ugh, sorry about this email. I was irritable from a lack of good sleepand waking up to a whole slew of posts here about extra complications,just as I was starting to feel we were at last approaching a kind of"cross the t's and dot the lowercase j's" state where there wasn't muchleft to add. But I have no idea what your intended tone was and it maywell have just been tongue in cheek. Mostly I was just annoyed atlearning that these data:// URLs exist. I hadn't been aware of them.And frankly...what the hell? Who thought it was a good idea to turn aharmless way to indicate *where* some data can be found into a way toshoehorn in the data itself? What are we supposed to use in a contextwhere we don't want that to be a possibility? Bah!

Cheers,Solderpunk