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Vasco Costa vasco.costa at gmx.com
Mon Feb 15 10:30:17 GMT 2021
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On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 01:21:40AM -0800, Nathan Galt wrote:
Everyone seems to agree that HTML is hypertext, but opinions are split, to say the least, about whether Gemini text is.
Is there a known word for Gemini text-style links?
Like I've said in a previous message recently, the definition ofhypertext/hyperlink seems to be extremely generic. I haven't seen anyconstraints saying it must be possible for links to be embedded in-linein paragraphs, nor have I seen anything that deems links on a newline bythemselves as non-hyperlinks. I really see the concept of hyperlinks assomething more abstract, presentation-neutral and representable by agraph. It just happened that HTML and others allowed such embedding...
That being said, and getting back to your question, what if we just callthem links? The word link seems to be universally accepted as somethingless restrictive than hyperlink. Perhaps there's no need to find aspecific word for Gemini?
--Vasco Costa
AKA gluon. Enthusiastic about computers, motorsports, science,technology, travelling and TV series. Yes I'm a bit of a geek.
Gemini: gemini://gluonspace.com/Gopher: gopher://gopher.geeksphere.tk/