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Fri May 29 22:11:45 BST 2020
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Jason McBrayer writes:
Can't we just say: "A spec-compliant client MUST NOT display data: URLs
inline; a client MAY treat data: URLs as links to media, to be opened
only on user request."?
While ideal, I think Postel's law will eventually bite you there -correctly formatted pages will render just fine without clientsforbidding data: URLS, while incorrectly formatted pages will only workon clients technically violating the spec.
How about this: it's a bit of a hack, but imagine if we explicitlyharnessed data URLs to do something vaguely useful?
e.g.
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data://a%20person%20dancing``` \o/ | / \```
I know, I know, very silly - but _if_ there were a way to make data://URLs an indispensible part of text/gemini it would make it verydifficult to abuse them without breaking things, wouldn't it?
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