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Petite Abeille petite.abeille at gmail.com
Sun Jan 3 20:43:12 GMT 2021
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On Jan 2, 2021, at 04:04, Kiëd Llaentenn <kiedtl at tilde.team> wrote:
4. It mixes information and presentation, which is against the spirit of
Gemini(?)
Hmmm?
If anything, gemini/text is... purely about information‽
Put another way, text/gemini has no control over presentation. None.
Presentation is the remit of the user-agent, the client.
The only escape hatch is the pre-formatted block, ala ```, which is meant to be rendered 'as-is', in monospace fonts. Therefore the endless overloading of that construct for many exotic purposes.
5.4.4 Preformatted text lines"Preformatted text lines should be presented to the user in a "neutral", monowidth font without any alteration to whitespace or stylistic enhancements."
But of course, we also have links.
Links can be resolved, and rendered, in any creative way a smart client sees fit.
For example, an embedded text/csv, encoded as a data link, could be rendered in place into a beautiful looking table by the discerning user-agent:
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data:text/csv;1997%2CFord%2CE350 Table Caption
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