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I don't know, I like that Gemini is a different space. I like that there are parallel spaces, but I like even that Gemini.circumlinar.space http is not the same as the Gemini experience. It's missing stuff. Gemini is a different dimension, like the Shadowfell. >Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 15:24:36 +0200 >From: Alex Schroeder <alex at gnu.org> >To: Gemini <gemini at lists.orbitalfox.eu> >Subject: The optional scheme in URLs >Message-ID: <84608df2f7aa61300b92c6d08608b3b1ce4cdd0b.camel at gnu.org> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > >A few sites out there offer both Gemini and web access. That's cool. >It's a bridge to Gemini space. At first, as a developer who had written >just such a tool, I was exasperated: should I be linking to Gemini URLs >or to web URLs, or both? Or translate them automatically in the >background? > >It turns out, this is not required. Just now, for example, I added link >like the following: > >=> //flounder.online/ Flounder, for simple web people > >The magic of URLs is that the actual target depends on what you're >looking at: If you're looking at >https://transjovian.org:1965/gemini/page/Sites then the link goes to >https://flounder.online/ and when you're looking at >gemini://transjovian.org/gemini/page/Sites then the link goes to >gemini://flounder.online/. > >Now I'm just taking extra care such that as many URLs as possible are >reachable using either scheme. If they are, then I can link to these >resources without specifying a scheme and it'll just work. > >Cheers >Alex -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
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