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Comment by ๐Ÿ satch

Re: "Should Lagrange display a static emoji for Geminispace.org?"

In: s/Lagrange

I think you misunderstood me; I know that favicons won't make it into the spec and frankly agree with that.

That's why I think the favicon in the key/value list is probably not going to be implemented anywhere. /favicon.txt or a emoji in the text header is different because it can be done causually and people can bookmark your page using your recommended icon if they want.

I think that the most spec-compliant option is just to include a favicon as the first character in the first top-level heading on a page. That way it does its job whether or not the client has favicon support, and there's no pressure.

๐Ÿ satch

May 22 ยท 7 months ago

Poll Results

1. Yes, ๐ŸŒ’ should be displayed as the static emoji

โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ– 26%

2. No, that's unfair

โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ– 9%

3. I dont't care

โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ– 17%

4. Just use Lagrange's custom icon feature for bookmarks to set it yourself

โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ– 31%

5. Yes, but only if I get my very own, and yes, I know that I'm overreaching

โ–ˆโ–ˆโ–ˆโ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ– 14%

6. I don't like polls

โ–ˆโ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ–โ– 3%

35 votes were cast.

10 Later Comments โ†“

๐Ÿ‘ป sirwilburthefirst ยท 2023-05-22 at 20:20:

My opinion:

- I think preserving 1 request per page is a good idea. It keeps things simple. It feels like a slippery slope if we start making exceptions to this rule.

- Messing with the mime type seems brittle to me. A lot of software uses mime types as a key. Extending that might break things.

- I like some of the ideas like using the emoji at the start of the title. That feels like in the spirit of Gemini to me.

- Do whatever you want, Lagrange is your browser :)

๐Ÿต cquenelle ยท 2023-05-23 at 13:43:

How about this: If the top level page on the site has a title at the start of the page, and the title starts with a single non-alpha-numeric character then use that character for the site icon. The browser would only know what it was if the user chose to go to the top level page. No fair loading it automatically. But if it was known it would apply to all the pages. I do notice that Geminispace.org seems to have two leading symbols. Which looks like both layers (site style and browser) are both trying to add the same style feature.

๐Ÿ satch ยท 2023-05-23 at 19:20:

@cquenelle i like this

โ˜•๏ธ Morgan ยท 2023-05-24 at 08:51:

For what it's worth; lack of favicon support is my only, very minor, complaint about the gemini protocol.

clanmorgan.org does serve favicon.txt, I like how it looks if you use that for the site icon, and it's mildly frustrating that others mostly won't see it like that.

But! I'm not sure it's nearly important enough to be worth "fixing". Maybe it's even helpful to keep a minor feature that people want unimplemented, as a "line in the sand".

I voted "only if I can have one hardcoded too", though. What can I say, it would look cool.

๐Ÿต michaelnordmeyer ยท 2023-05-24 at 09:00:

@Morgan People love their favicons dearly. Me too. But it also goes against the-client-styles-the-content-not-the-server. After asking for a personal favicon, people will ask for a certain color for their site to be applied by Lagrange. ยฏ\(ใƒ„)/ยฏ

๐Ÿš€ skyjake ยท 2023-05-24 at 09:07:

@Morgan:

I like how it looks if you use that for the site icon, and it's mildly frustrating that others mostly won't see it like that.

The thing about Gemini is that clients have free reign on how content is presented (within the confines of the spec), so one should try to accept that it's futile to control and/or influence the visual appearance of one's capsule as seen by others.

I think it's great that everyone gets to choose these things privately for themselves. Tastes and preferences vary, after all.

๐Ÿš€ skyjake ยท 2023-05-24 at 09:10:

@michaelnordmeyer

a certain color for their site to be applied by Lagrange

You can already switch color themes via Lagrange's site-specific settings, privately for yourself, of course. ๐Ÿ™‚

(Page Information > Settings)

โ˜•๏ธ Morgan ยท 2023-05-24 at 09:20:

Thanks @skyjake!

I totally agree with that point of view while finding it not particularly satisfying, mostly because it seems unlikely that people actually will pick and assign site icons. In Langrange for example I think they are very likely to stick with the pseudo-random default.

I don't really have a better suggestion.

I can imagine UI where you hover over the site icon and get choices: "randomize", "customize", "check for favicon.txt". But I don't think it would get much use, either.

I think what we have today works fine.

๐Ÿต michaelnordmeyer ยท 2023-05-24 at 09:35:

@skyjake I know. My point was a creator-chosen color which is shown to other users by default.

๐Ÿ€ gritty ยท 2023-05-26 at 11:02:

I get the client side styling argument but I also like having the favicon.txt. could have an option in the browsers to allow all or none for favicon.txt usage. question is, what's default.

Original Post

๐ŸŒ’ s/Lagrange

Should Lagrange display a static emoji for Geminispace.org? โ€” I know that this is a little unfair or even entitled, but life's not fair, so here it goes. ๐Ÿ˜‰ Lagrange has some static emoji assigned to certain sites like `gemini.circumlunar.space`. As the BDFL of Lagrange and geminispace.org, @skyjake could add geminispace.org's emoji (๐ŸŒ’) to those few static icons.

๐Ÿ’ฌ michaelnordmeyer ยท 26 comments ยท 1 like ยท May 22 ยท 7 months ago ยท ๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ