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

Thomas M thomas5max at gmail.com

Mon Feb 22 12:35:38 GMT 2021

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Hi,

as I understand it, currently only prompts for single-line inputs aresupported, and it seems this is mostly intended for queries to searchengines. This means, a (anonymous) commenting system could not beimplemented on a gemini page (except for one-line comments).

If multiline input prompts were possible, then you could implement acommenting system like this: the user would click on a "Click to addcomment" link and then would get a text prompt where she could input acomment and then submit. (Optionally, the text prompt could be edited inan external editor.)

I understand that the protocol explicitly doesn't want to implementcomplicated mechanisms like POST, but maybe it's possible to escape theline breaks and submit a multiline input the same way a single-lineinput can be submitted right now? (While I'm thinking about this, itmight 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>), butmight already be quite useful.

Best,Thomas