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Drew, my friendly neighbourhood admin, writes:
Gemini is a read-only protocol for hyperlinked content distribution.
gemini://drewdevault.com/2021/11/15/Reframing-gemini.gmi
I like that. He continues:
For what it's worth, this framing communicates a lot about what the protocol itself is for, but isn't much help for understanding the document format. Questions like inline images, inline formatting syntax, and other extensions to Gemtext are not neatly resolved by this philosophy. I have my opinions on these, but when it comes to framing them succinctly, I'll leave the problem to future Gemini philosophers.
Well, my preferred answer would be something like this:
By using gemtext format the author surrenders any control of presentation of their content. The presentation is completely delegated to the readers client.
If my readers' clients create inline images from the links in my writing ... well, go for it. But would you please be so kind as to leave me alone with my plain text client? I'd be ever so grateful!
Cheers,
~ew