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I like this idea, with a few exceptions.For the logo (🌼) proposal, I like the favicon.txt proposal as a better,terminal compliant way to solve this problem.I'm also not sure how the Menu (🧭 ) is different from Home (🏠).
On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 12:22:21PM +0100, Luke Emmet wrote:
Hello everyone
I've been thinking about various discussions we've been having on the list
related to how to use and build on/augment the geminisphere in a way that is
true to the gemini vision, such as how do we:
- indicate and find comments between pages in a lightweight gemini-way
- provide ways to optionally "include" images or text
- signal where is your a site home page
- provide a common navigation menu
- indicate the location of your site logo
I've started a proposal to define a way for an author to signal these
elements in a lightweight, text based and optional way, dubbed "Lightweight
Unicode Author Client Hinting for Gemini - LUACH"
The idea is to codify a minimal set of conventions we can use to build
further structure on top of the gemini space to support additional purposes.
I must emphasis the intention is for this to be *wholly optional* and I dont
think it needs to become part of the canonical standard, as it is just a set
of optional text conventions. Maybe if successful it could be a set of
common conventions that are becoming adopted, and a good practice. It
codifies things that are emerging as common conventions we see in
geminispace, or more widely. For example "standard" names for home page or
ways of communicating comments textually
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gemini://myowndomain/home.gmi Home
=
gemini://xyzdomain/cookery/egg-recipies.gmi Responds to XYZ thoughts on
how to cook eggs
Or as we already see the use of unicode glyphs to indicate comments such as
the speech bubble 💬 emoji or house 🏠 for home.
This is intended to be very lightweight and helpful for readers using simple
command line clients as much as it might be for richer clients who may
provide additional UI. There isnt any overhead for authors apart from
providing these optional hints in their link text, which can help everyone.
The "responds to" and "has comments" can be used by search crawlers to build
a meta layer of who is commenting on whom within gemini space
I've put it in Github here:
https://github.com/LukeEmmet/GeminiLUACH
Comments and further thoughts welcome
Best wishes
- Luke