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Jason McBrayer jmcbray at carcosa.net
Tue Feb 23 02:34:21 GMT 2021
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Hans Gerwitz writes:
## Capsule branding
Branding and brand-building are the banes of modern society, and onlyuseful to the vectorialist class, never the hacker class.
It’s important for users to experience a sense of place as they
navigate (as per Luke Emmet’s “cognitive aspects” thread from May
2020) but also important to give content creators some control over
the presentation of their text.
If you want control over the presentation of your text, serve a PDF. Theuniformity of Gemini pages is a feature. The way Lagrange and Geminautauto-style pages is a good way of providing a sense of place withoutgiving the author another lever to abuse.
I appreciate the need to avoid spurious network requests, especially
across servers. But rules like “user takes action” are impossible to
enforce (and scrolling is an action).
Note that loading images on scrolling allows a particularly nasty kindof behavioral tracking – you can know how far the user scrolled down thepage, and how long it took them to get to that point.
I do think that "display inline, on click" is a reasonable behavior in agraphical browser, though I personally would rather images load in adedicated image viewing tool.
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