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From: David Arch <david@tilde.institute>

Subject: Textual Web

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 20:32:16 -0000 (UTC)

Message-ID: <slcd0g$1dei$2@gioia.aioe.org>

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Quoting partly Michael Lazar's SMALL INTERNET PROTOCOL ROUNDUP

from the Gemini mailing list:

## gemini://
Information about this protocol is sparse, but at first glance it
appears to be an amateurish blunder that should have just used a
subset of HTTP/HTML. Doesn't support inline images.
## mercury://
A stripped down version of gemini that was outlined by solderpunk in an
informal blog post. There is no actual spec for mercury and it is not
implemented anywhere. Mainly used by the gemini community as a stand-in
for the abstract idea of "gemini minus TLS" or "gemini minus feature x".
## text://
The "plaintext protocol", probably the closest thing we will get to a
concrete implementation of mercury. Created by gemini mailing list
persona non grata, petite abeille. Supports both non-TLS and TLS, and is
backwards compatible with gemini. Was originally referred to as "☿://".

Is there already a name for MarkDown over HTTP(S)?

The Showdown application seems like a nice GTK GUI for rendering MarkDown

files. Looking at its past issues, there was never an intention to access

content over the network, though:

https://github.com/craigbarnes/showdown/issues/52

What a pity?

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