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From: news@zzo38computer.org.invalid
Subject: Re: Gemini is no social network
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2021 14:16:45 -0800
Message-ID: <1638309970.bystand@zzo38computer.org>
On 2021-11-28, rtr <rtr@nospam.invalid> wrote:
I don't.
Unless the point is only to display text pages over the network (the
network already plenty of tools and protocols to do such things).
There are other protocols to do other things better, such as NNTP for
multiuser slow communciations, IRC for fast communications, Telnet for
interactive applications, etc.
The point of Gemini is not to reduce the functionnality to a bare
minimum, it's to ensure a consistency in the way information should be
displayed.
But it does not remove the need for such protocol to build business
application for example. An accounting software could be using Gemini
for example.
We need the ability to receive and send information, build forms and
dynamic software to answer those forms.
Sometimes it is, yes, but many ordinary documents will not need such a
things. However, there are other ways that it could be done. (Gemini will
not do everything; that is why there are other protocols and file formats.
You can even have files in other formats with Gemini protocol, too, but
a client program might not support those other formats.)
Pinku Basudei <pinku@straylight.freeside.l5> wrote:
We can style our browsers in all kinds of ways with fonts and colors that may not be to the liking of the author. That way s/he have no control over what is actually displayed in our end. I can hide preformated text by making it the same color as the background for example.
Yes. It is possible with HTML too but it doesn't work very well (due to
conflicting CSS rules, etc) and they tend to remove stuff from browsers
that are actually good, adding in only the bad stuff.
No the point of Gemini is to reduce the possibility of feature creep that puts it in control of any big entity, like the way that Google have the web in a tight grip.
This I agree; there is too much mess with web like Google has.
(A better web browser must be made to have more user controls and less of everything else.
I do have some ideas, including a new HTTP response header to implement unknown file types,
as well as uer features such as fully custom request/response overriding, meta-CSS (only
usable by the user and not by the document author), ARIA view mode (even for sighted users),
and others, including deliberately excluding a lot of features.)
--
Don't laugh at the moon when it is day time in France.
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Gemini is no social network (by David <david@arch.invalid> on Thu, 18 Nov 2021 22:40:59 +0100)