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[SPEC] Are (simple) commenting systems explicitly unsupported by gemini?

Omar Polo op at omarpolo.com

Mon Feb 22 13:15:34 GMT 2021

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Thomas M <thomas5max at gmail.com> writes:

Hi,

as I understand it, currently only prompts for single-line inputs are

supported, and it seems this is mostly intended for queries to search

engines. This means, a (anonymous) commenting system could not be

implemented on a gemini page (except for one-line comments).

If multiline input prompts were possible, then you could implement a

commenting system like this: the user would click on a "Click to add

comment" link and then would get a text prompt where she could input a

comment and then submit. (Optionally, the text prompt could be edited in

an external editor.)

I understand that the protocol explicitly doesn't want to implement

complicated mechanisms like POST, but maybe it's possible to escape the

line breaks and submit a multiline input the same way a single-line

input can be submitted right now? (While I'm thinking about this, it

might also be nice to let the server specify a MIME type for the input.)

This system would still be far from the complexity of HTML forms

(essentially it's equivalent to only allowing a single <textarea>), but

might already be quite useful.

Best,

Thomas

Nothing prevents an user to submit a multi line replies to a 10/11 input(UIs aside.)

I just tested this on elpher: `C-q C-j' inserts a newline and it getsserialised ad %0A (as it should) when building the query.

The 1K limit still applies tho