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skyjake skyjake at dengine.net
Tue Dec 28 04:47:10 GMT 2021
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On 27. Dec 21, at 15.57, The Gnuserland <gnuserland at mailbox.org> wrote:
Looking at this new format seems to fit better other scopes like, for instance, videogames.
I agree. I think with Gemini the important metric is the size of the compressed images, not the (de)compression speed. According to the QOI benchmark table, the file sizes are roughly equal or a bit larger than PNG.
On 26. Dec 21, at 18.37, almaember <almaember at disroot.org> wrote:
Normally it is not the business of clients to handle images. Instead, they should run whatever program is configured to open the MIME-type (unless it's something basic, like Gemtext or plain text).
I would say it's perfectly normal for a GUI client to be able to display images if directed at an URL with an `image/*` media type. Many rich text/webview UI controls that are likely the foundation of a GUI gemtext viewer will also be able to at least show JPGs and PNGs.
But yeah, the user should expect an external handler to deal with any media that is not supported by a client.
--jaakko