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Francis Siefken fsiefken at gmail.com
Thu Jun 17 21:27:58 BST 2021
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Hi ew, thanks for coming up with an interesting alternative:
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filename.gmi
* compressing this file with xz, say
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filename.gmi.xz
* adding an abstract which describes the article
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filename-abstract.gmi
* adding a link to the abstract
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filename.gmi.xz read more [compressed]
* the abstract is added to your feed and/or index.gmi
But in this flow there is additional user choice involved to 'read more'.It's similar to gopher, the text is plain text, anything else such ascompressed text is designated as a binary file.In my personal preference as a gemini reader, if it's basically just a pageor a few pages of text I'd like to read it all immediately.Perhaps it's a habit from the www. But it's similar to teletext, when Ichoose a number I expect to see the complete teletext page, even thoughteletext is just a few lines (which won't really benefit from compressioneven in 300 baud situations).
The client software might be able to uncompress the downloaded
file and display it similar to LaGrange displaying image as if
they were "inline".
I just tried it, amfora asks me to open or download thexicygnus.gmi.gz file.I choose open; the os recognizes the *.gz extension and loads the defaultdecompression extraction app.In this extraction app I have to manually press extract, choose anextraction location and when it's extracted I can opt to open the filelocation and then double click the gmi file which it opens in a plain texteditor, not in amfora.That's not 'keep it simple'. While it's possible that one day there's agemini browser which recognizes the gmi.gz and automatically decompressesit, this is't working now - and why would it? In firefox and chrome it'sthe same behaviour unless one would write a javascript that would handle itautomatically - but that doesn't fly in gemini space.Alternatively one could reconfigure it client side to automaticallydecompress and display client side, with the back button or key working -but this you cannot enforce as the one serving the gemini capsule.
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