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Byron Torres b at torresjrjr.com
Mon Nov 1 14:37:52 GMT 2021
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On Mon Nov 1, 2021 at 2:35 PM GMT, DJ Chase wrote:
On Mon, 2021-11-01 at 12:41 +0100, Alex Schroeder wrote:
I’d say no. The functionality of Gemini is pretty much done.
Also, that's not line-oriented.
People are of course free to write their own clients that do their own
processing. But the standard is: if you need that, serve Markdown or
HTML documents instead of extending Gemtext.
Side note: I think it's best to serve PDFs instead of other markup
languages because everyone can view PDFs.
I'd say serving PDFs would be the grand overkill. PDFs have their ownpurpose, built for print.
Many people don't have a markdown viewer/compiler installed, and
serving HTML is, in my opinion, overkill for Gemini.
Who's to say installing a Gemini client shouldn't come with a dependencylike a CommomMark compiler or similar? Even if there are differentMarkdown standards, the differences are minimal and circumventable. Ican imagine a dropdown menu with a selection of Markdown "flavours".
One should also not limit our imagination to what currently exists.Perhaps in a typical desktop application suite, a markdown viewer shouldbe included, and we should make a community effort to make that normal.
DJ Chase
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