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Almaember almaember at disroot.org
Sat Jun 19 13:08:18 BST 2021
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On 19/06/2021 10:59, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
If I understand correctly your proposal, you suggest to change,
neither the protocol nor the gemtext format, but to push browser
authors to recognize text/gemini+gzip and act accordingly.
In that case, I see two issues:
* how the end user of a browser without compression support will know
in advance if the file is compressed or not? From the file extension?
It is not always present.
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ilovecompression.gmiz I cannot read it
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plain.gmi I can read itThe client could display a simple indicator on the UI. I'm pretty sure some browsers already display the MIME-type.
This isn't our decision, but the client authors'.
* today, every browser can read every Gemini file. Your proposal
seems to imply that some users will now see only a part of the
Geminispace, the uncompressed one. This is the same problem we have
when trying to use the Web with lynx or dillo: we can see only a part
of it.
Progress comes at a price. And, this is an unfinished protocol, at least officially.
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