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Mansfield mansfield at ondollo.com
Sun Jul 18 03:43:00 BST 2021
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(Sorry I'm late in responding to this.)
I also care quite a bit about supporting non-technical users - especiallyin helping them manage their own content.
I've shared some thoughts in-line below.
On Fri, Jul 9, 2021 at 6:05 AM David Messer <davx8342 at gmail.com> wrote:
Hey folks,
I've literally been in a whirlwind of joy for a couple of days now after
stumbling on a Gemini link on the Monome Norns forum. I love the
minimalism, I love the simplicity, and it started me thinking about what I
could do with Gemini.
I've been looking at ideas for community projects but the thing about that
is I need a means for non-technical users to be able to contribute.
For me, I wanted a single download/install - a single client that couldread *and* write. I kept my client super simple though... both to easeimplementation and to try to keep with the ethos of Gemini.
Am I correct in saying that as it stands there is no built-in way for
users to submit content via a multi-line free text field and that it
completely relies on secondary means to get content onto the system running
the Gemini server?
There is no officially supported status code to request anything other thana single line of input shorter than 1024 characters.
The client I wrote added a status code that allowed for the server tosupply the entire page to the client and set up accepting an entire page aspart of a request sent from a client. I've sent several emails in thisgroup that talk through the details of an implementation. My serverconforms to the implementation and the client I wrote also supports it. Ofcourse you're welcome to write your own client that conformed to thedetails of my experiment - it could be interesting to see if that worked.
I've seen some suggestions on the mailing list that include using a http
frontend to submit content, emailing in content, etc. All of which are
valid use cases. To me, that's just adding complexity which is what I'm
trying to get away from with Gemini.
Yeah - completely defeats the purpose IMO.
I had a very brief look at titan and inimeg but I don't think either of
those is capable of allowing users to type longform text into a multi-line
free text box.
Has anyone else tried this or found a good way of achieving this?
Feel free to check out the client I wrote: https://ondollo.com/mansfield
The thought occurred to me that using INPUT I could implement an edlin
style text editor but I thought I'd sound this out before committing to
that level of self-harm!
Interesting idea - feel free to do what you might want to have done or whatyou might enjoy doing... but it seems like you wouldn't enjoy that! ;-)
Will finish off by just complimenting you on the quality of the discussion
here. I've been reading through quite a bit of the mailing list archive and
it's striking how super nice everyone is. What an amazing community you
have!
Thanks.
davx
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