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Sean Conner sean at conman.org
Fri Sep 11 01:30:42 BST 2020
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It was thus said that the Great easeout at tilde.team once stated:
This is a possible solution to the conflict, and I don't mind it. I do
think machine-readable on the top line and human-readable on the bottom
line is natural too, because we put captions beneath figures, and
because the top slot is already used in e.g. GitHub Markdown for
language specifiers.
Luke Emmet wrote:
The pleasure of Gemini is there can be a genuine diversity of clients -
unlike the web.
And back in the mid-90s, there *were* plenty of web clients. Easily adozen that were easily available and that was back in time when it was easyenough to parse HTML, there was no CSS and no Javascript, and it wasconceivable that someone could write a simple web browser in a weekend [1].
Then Sandra Snan sent the following link:
https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope.html
Wherein it's mentioned that the current "state of the web" is described by114,000,000 words spread across 1,217 standards documents. You get here byincremental changes, all of which are "easy" and "it would be so nice."
Also, don't forget that Gemini can *easily* serve up HTML documents. AndMarkdown documents. And PDF. And a host of other documentation formatsthat all do what you want to do. And then some.
But hey, I can play this game. I added the following non-standarddocument:
gemini://gemini.conman.org/test/preformat.gemini
that contains "machine readable text" at the opening preformatted marker,and a "human readable text" on the ending preformatted marker, just to givean indication of what it might look like and what might be done with it. Enough talk, *someone* has to do an implementation to scare the bejeezus outof everyone (not that it's particularly scary in what I did).
-spc (HTML people. Seriously, HTML. You want your format, you have it already ... )
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViolaWWW