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Luke Emmet luke.emmet at gmail.com
Tue Jun 2 22:44:41 BST 2020
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Another voice over here in against any suggestion to drop the frugal but useful heading and bullet structuring we have already.
Having already implemented automatic table of contents in GemiNaut I can confirm it does give a usability boost when reading longer posts.
It is very lightweight and zero burden for anyone who just wants to write a long essay.
I think the current spec has it right.
Utf 8 everywhere sounds good as a working principle. Maybe we can wait and see if there really is a widespread need for any other encodings.
We can do ASCII art in Unicode - I don't get what the drive behind that remark was, mentioned earlier.
As for TLS versions, I don't have a strong opinion, except to say that implementing the normal case for the majority of content should be straightforward on the client and server side. Keep the complexity down as far as we can.
Best wishes
Luke
On 2 Jun 2020, at 22:11, James Tomasino <tomasino at lavabit.com> wrote:
On 6/2/20 8:59 PM, plugd wrote:
❷ drop everything from text/gemini but text and link lines.
Rational: The world has enough formatting options as it is. Everybody and their pet fish has their preferences (most posts on this list are about formatting...). text/gemini will not move the state of the art. Keep it simple. Less is more.
I'll be that guy to step in here.
As solderpunk mentioned, headings have semantic meaning, as do lists.
These are not formatting features, although they can be styled by
clients that want to be pretty. They provide structure and meaning to
text documents which is invaluable for accessibility and alternative
devices.
We have also had a LOT of conversation on preformatted text to get where
we are. There are some types of content which are impossible to
implement without it.
I don't see any of those things as extraneous features. They enable the
text/gemini format to be what it is as much as links.