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A Gemini-style proposal

Andrew Singleton singletona082 at gmail.com

Wed Nov 3 13:08:47 GMT 2021

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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?'

On 11/3/21 8:05 AM, Devin Prater wrote:

Do we have to go PDF? Oh dear God. Okay if they're textual in nature,

sure. But you know someone is gonna start uploading scans. I mean

people can do that in HTML kinda, but thankfully it's harder to do.

Devin Prater

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

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.

Side note: I think it's best to serve PDFs instead of other markup

languages because everyone can view PDFs. Many people don't have a

markdown viewer/compiler installed, and serving HTML is, in my

opinion,

overkill for Gemini.

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