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Proposed minor spec changes, for comment.

solderpunk solderpunk at SDF.ORG

Fri May 22 16:02:35 BST 2020

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On Fri, May 22, 2020 at 09:01:45AM +0200, plugd wrote:

jan6 at tilde.ninja writes:

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

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

I kind of hope that it won't ever be possible for a text/gemini page to*be* a trashpile. It's genuinely very hard to create something"invalid". There is no concept of anything coming in opening/closingpairs. Whitespace is always optional so it doesn't matter whether it'sthere or not.

A link line where the first thing after =

can't be parsed as a URL is agenuine invalidity, but remember that relative links are allowed, soeven:

one two three

is fine (a relative link to a path ending in "one", with label "twothree"). Something like:

foo://bar://baz:// Chew on this!

is a real problem, but it's not going to happen by accident.

Cheers,Solderpunk