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A Gemini-style proposal

Pete D. peteyboy at SDF.ORG

Wed Nov 3 23:55:54 GMT 2021

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Message: 2

Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2021 14:56:22 +0000

From: DJ Chase <u9000 at posteo.mx>

To: Andrew Singleton <singletona082 at gmail.com>, Devin Prater

<r.d.t.prater at gmail.com>

Cc: Gemini application layer protocol <gemini at lists.orbitalfox.eu>,

Roberto Soccoli <roberto.vpt at protonmail.com>

Subject: Re: A Gemini-style proposal

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On Wed, 2021-11-03 at 08:08 -0500, Andrew Singleton wrote:

I'm reminded of the guy that went 'the internet is shit. return to PDF'

and everyone else just

'PDF is terrible for a long list of reasons.'

So I ask now the same question as then without further rhetoric. 'Why?'

To be clear: I'm not proposing serving PDFs; I'm suggesting not to serve

HTML or Markdown (which is an HTML front-end, and can include HTML tags

such as `<script>`).

On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 9:35 AM DJ Chase <u9000 at posteo.mx>

<mailto:u9000 at posteo.mx>

wrote:

On Mon, 2021-11-01 at 12:41 +0100, Alex Schroeder wrote:

I?d say no. The functionality of Gemini is pretty much done.

Also, that's not line-oriented.

People are of course free to write their own clients that do

their own

processing. But the standard is: if you need that, serve Markdown or

HTML documents instead of extending Gemtext.

Also, this isn't a standard. It's aruably not even the defacto-standard.

People have pointed out from early on that gemini is designed on the server side to serve text documents (as not-links, anyway), and if you need more than the native gemtext format has to offer, you are free to serve whatever text, be it Markdown or what have you. I think all the browsers will just display markdown in all its human-readable glory. Like if you view gemini pages is bombadillo, and headline just look like

Headline

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