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Ben Bader ben at bendb.com
Tue Feb 9 17:44:30 GMT 2021
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My personal take is that user privacy and control are cornerstoneprinciples of the Gemini project, and to me that implies that user agentsshould maximize user choice. Auto-loading images could lead to usertracking, and users should be in charge of when and how they exposethemselves to such.
But then again, who would use a web browser that didn't show pictures? Notmany.
A pragmatic choice (and one I'm taking in my own browser) is to have asetting to enable inline image display.
Just my two cents.Ben
On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 10:27 AM Omar Polo <op at omarpolo.com> wrote:
Jose Cruz <jlcruz2318 at gmail.com> writes:
Hi. I have a question regarding the gemini browsers. I came across gemini
recently and I was wondering about the browsers.
Please correct me if I am wrong in any of my understandings.
It seems one of the key components of the gemini project is that once the
client makes a request to the server, the server fills the request and
then
the connection closes.
Also - gemini does not have inline image displays.
My question is - would it be against gemini protocol to build a browser
that would be able to open audio files or http audio streams as well as
image files in the same window? Or - has this already been done?
Thank you!
In theory, a client can do whatever it wants. There are some guidelines
that defines "best practices" that client authors should follow (like
don't make requests behind the user back etc).
There is at least one browser that I know, Lagrange[0], that is able to
display images inline (upon user request), but there can be others too.
Cheers,
[0]: https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/
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