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Vasco Costa vasco.costa at gmx.com
Mon Feb 15 09:31:14 GMT 2021
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On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 08:46:57AM +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 10:46:19PM +0000,
Luke Emmet <luke at marmaladefoo.com> wrote
a message of 32 lines which said:
I could not understand how that can be correct? Gemtext *is* indeed
a hypertext format with hyperlinks. A hypertext is merely any form
of text and links forming a graph structure that allows users to
navigate the links.
I disagree. Gemini has links but not hyperlinks. This is why, for
instance, it is hard to translate automatically HTML (or any format
with hyperlinks) in gemtext; you are forced to postpone the links at
the end of the paragraph, thus losing context.
Many users would be surprised if we told them Gemini has hyperlinks,
when discovering how it works.
The definition of hypertext does not specifically mention that thehyperlinks must be embedded multiple times within a line. It's perfectlyfine if you only define hyperlinks in new lines, which is the particularcase of Gemini.
Therefore, Gemini is hypertext.
--Vasco Costa
AKA gluon. Enthusiastic about computers, motorsports, science,technology, travelling and TV series. Yes I'm a bit of a geek.
Gemini: gemini://gluonspace.com/Gopher: gopher://gopher.geeksphere.tk/