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nothien at uber.space nothien at uber.space
Tue Jan 26 12:43:10 GMT 2021
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Russtopia <rmagee at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Hi!
[... form proposal ... ]
The issue is that Gemini (and gemtext) is too close to being frozenforever. And most Gemini content out there doesn't need to use forms.
I have an alternative proposal: make the form on a new page, and usesomething other than gemtext for it (and possibly something other thanGemini the protocol). I suggest instead making a gemtext-derived formatthat is specially suited to forms, which has special line types andstuff as necessary (in fact, I suggest adding a similar line type to theone you gave in your proposal). You could probably borrow from a lot ofthe gemtext spec directly. It would be best to use one of theGemini-analogue protocols which allow uploading (I know of Dioscuri,Titan, and Inimeg) so that users could submit the form by performing anupload process to the same URL. Using a different protocol would bebest as then there are no upload limitations; with Gemini, the URL givenby the client has to be less than ~1024 bytes, which is not suited toall forms.
~aravk | ~nothien