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James Tomasino tomasino at lavabit.com
Thu Jun 4 17:31:08 BST 2020
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On 6/4/20 3:58 PM, Petite Abeille wrote:
On the server side, I presume?
What happened to the notion of client's agency?
5.3.2 Link lines/Clients can present links to users in whatever fashion
the client author wishes./
The clients can present _links_ to users in whatever fashion. Theyshould still be links. If a URL pattern allows for the encoding ofrandom material, that should not be license to inline content. The goalsof the project are clear philosophically that text/gemini represents asingle document format that can hyperlink. Pulling in data in the waysyou are describing is no different from the earlier suggestion of a <=line or frames.
If your client wants to display images inline in the document AFTER auser clicks on a link, that would be within the purview of a clientauthor. A client should not choose to inline images automatically,though, as they would no longer be links.
I think this idea, not the specific technical parts, but the theory andphilosophy, should answer all of the ideas you've been presentingregarding URL hackery collectively in the negative.