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New solnet protocol with a very neat and minimal design.
I like the approach of just inferring the response type from the filename extension or trailing slash. Keeps it simple.
nex uses hard-wrapped lines for directories (like gopher) which gives more opportunity for creative page styling using ascii art and center text alignment and such. The recommended line width is 60-characters, which is too large for mobile screens IMO, but it fits with the general astetic of Nightfall City.
2023-07-07 · 3 days ago · 👍 iiogama, zaphod
I am not sure I get it. It is basically gopher with gemini style link lines and no gophertype/input. It is certainly easy to implement, but feels like it brings much less to the table than gopher or gemini, which are both already easy to implement. It seems like the hypothetical mercury protocol would be a better choice for most folks (gemini without the tls mandate).
Going w/ gopher style selectors means you arent using URLs in the normal sense (invalid chars allowed). Which doesn't work well with gemini link styles. Gopher links can have spaces in them. So really this isnt gopher style links either.
I dont mean to sound negative. It is an interesting exercise in minimalism.
By gopher style selectors I mean that it is specifically pointed out that "The <selector> may be any string". But if it has spaces in it, which certainly "any string" could have (and gopher allows), then you cant parse what is link and what is text in the gemini style link line `=> [url/selector]<space>[link desc]`. There is ambiguity. To get around this in gemtext you have to urlencode gopher links that have invalid URL chars in them and hope the client or server know what to do with that. Which is a big if.
Cool... Will anyone use it though? Is it any different than serving Spartan text files, for instance?
This is cute. I don't think the point was to make The Next Big Smol Protocol so much as to just make something for fun out of the love of the smolnet.
2023-07-08 · 3 days ago