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Hey, Obligatory "I hope this is within the scope of this mailing list" preface! So I'm not even a week deep into digging into geminispace but I've been really happy with what exists so far and I'm trying to encourage other people to join me. My question, then, is what's the support for serving and browsing images in gemini. Like as a usecase what if I wanted to set-up a small gemini server and, say, have a photo gemlog (links to photos on the server embedded within posts) what servers would work for that and what browsers could I recommend for a pretty seamless experience? Thanks! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/attachments/20200709/8790 7d3c/attachment.htm>
Hello, welcome! All servers will work with images. Most browsers should as well. The biggest difference you'll find from the Web is that you'll have to link to images, they won't be displayed inline. Thanks, makeworld
On July 9, 2020 2:24:25 PM EDT, colecmac at protonmail.com wrote: >Hello, welcome! > >All servers will work with images. Most browsers should as >well. The biggest difference you'll find from the Web is >that you'll have to link to images, they won't be displayed inline. > >Thanks, >makeworld This, but with the caveat that I keep seeing people on this list indicating that they're working on a client that automagically displays any images linked as in-line images. I haven't seen an actual example of this yet, but if it doesn't exist now (and please someone say something if it does and I missed a client announcement because it would be cool!), it probably will in not too long. That would sorta be in line with what OP is looking for, but crucially this isn't something the server or the protocol is equipped to do, but rather some sugar a client could use to simulate in-lining. ~lel
On 7/9/20 6:30 PM, lel wrote: > This, but with the caveat that I keep seeing > people on this list indicating that they're > working on a client that automagically > displays any images linked as in-line images. If you're interested in this, please by all means do so by leveraging a mime-type other than text/gemini. Markdown support is available in several clients now and it can accomplish your goals.
I know the proxy at https://proxy.vulpes.one displays images inline, though I tend to agree with Tomasino on this issue. ~ acdw
On July 9, 2020 2:59:18 PM EDT, Case Duckworth <acdw at acdw.net> wrote: >I know the proxy at https://proxy.vulpes.one displays images inline, >though I tend to agree with Tomasino on this issue. Yeah, having now thought about it for more than like three seconds, it would either lead to certain chunks of the community writing content under the assumption that your client will in-line images, and their content not being readable in mainstream clients, or if clients that do this themselves become mainstream, then everyone will start writing content assuming that, and suddenly simple clients are locked out from interacting with most content. text/gemini is intentionally text-y and pretty opinionated about that, and in-lining images runs counter to the prevailing gopheresque idiom it's is trying to capture. ~lel
On 09-Jul-2020 19:30, lel wrote: > This, but with the caveat that I keep seeing > people on this list indicating that they're > working on a client that automagically > displays any images linked as in-line images. > > I haven't seen an actual example of this yet, > but if it doesn't exist now (and please > someone say something if it does and > I missed a client announcement because > it would be cool!), it probably will in not too > long. That would sorta be in line with what > OP is looking for, but crucially this isn't > something the server or the protocol is > equipped to do, but rather some sugar > a client could use to simulate in-lining. I agree, this is the kind of thing a graphical client might offer to do for the user - to show a specific image in-line on request. Generally the expectation is that images are not automatically loaded though, but different clients will have different UI. My understanding is that most clients will show the linked image when you click on it, either within the client itself, or by launching some external application. Best wishes - Luke
On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 03:15:39PM -0400, lel wrote: > On July 9, 2020 2:59:18 PM EDT, Case Duckworth <acdw at acdw.net> wrote: > >I know the proxy at https://proxy.vulpes.one displays images inline, > >though I tend to agree with Tomasino on this issue. --- cut for brevity --- > text/gemini is intentionally text-y and pretty > opinionated about that, and in-lining images runs > counter to the prevailing gopheresque idiom it's > is trying to capture. > > ~lel This was my first thought. I don't see that there's a value the ethos and style (if that's the right word) to have a slow creep away from supporting just a text interface. It's baked in support for people with visual impairments if nothing else, and future-proof. If I wanted that kind of experience, I'd just fall back to static hypertext on a browser and be done with it. -- Dr . Otto Skrzyk -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/attachments/20200709/76a3 7d3d/attachment.sig>
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