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Solène Rapenne solene at perso.pw
Tue Feb 23 11:10:35 GMT 2021
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On 23/02/2021 11:56, Sandra Snan wrote:
avr wrote:
a client that allows for normal edits but translates those into sed
commands when updating the page
These kinds of suggestions are along the line of having a client that
supports translating *asterisks* to emphasis, translating <font> family="foo"
to a specific font family, and so on.
There's nothing stopping anyone from implementing that kind of thing at
any moment and if it's gets traction it'll get traction. We're in a
similar situation as what broke the pre-standards web.
There's not a lot me or anyone else can do about that so I don't worry
too much about it♫🐞
However, for sending text I recommend email.
Here's an idea for how a wiki in a world where spam didn't exist could
work:
You send email to an address. The text of the page at the path that
matches the subject of that email is then set to the body of the email.
Whether that subject is "nice/orderly/unixy/path" or "Completely bonkers
with spaces that'll need to get percent-encoded and trunced to match the
1024 limit."
If people want to edit they can paste the old text into their new email.
This is just from the top of my head and not something I'd put into
production any time soon.
there is nothing preventing users to publish markdown files insteadof gemini files. On gemini, it's not mandatory to have everything as gemtext which would be reducing Gemini potential.
Like it is often done in gopher, people can have gemtext files as menus with their texts files in markdown that could be opened with a nice markdown viewer program, and links with gemini:// scheme from the markdown file would be opened using the gemini client. That would be like using opening a PDF from a website and clicking on a link in the PDF :)
The workflow may not seem optimal but it's perfectly doable with the current state of the protocol.