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About client rendering...

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📅 First Message: 2020-05-18 16:18
📅 Last Message: 2020-05-19 07:35

1. defdefred (defdefred (a) protonmail.com)

📅 Sent: 2020-05-18 16:18
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Considering the whole variety of screen we are using, what do you think of this idea?


	Phone used verticaly and old screen with pixel witdh < 1280, should 

display the text with one column.

	recent computer with 1280 <= pixel witdh < 1920, should display the 

document with 2 colunms or use only half of the screen to allow display of 
generated data like table of content, or external data like picture, 
video, http, gopher, etc... probably managed by external application.

	top of the line >= 1920 pixel wide could use more columns...


I notice that 1280 is 2x640 and 1920 is 3x640...
Of course, the user should be able to change the layout...

Regards,
freD.
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2. Felix Queißner (felix (a) masterq32.de)

📅 Sent: 2020-05-18 16:33
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Hey,

> Considering the whole variety of screen we are using, what do you think of this idea?
I don't think we should specify how clients should display the data. We
gain much from having variety in clients, their kind of displaying and
everything. I for example use 1080p monitor with usually a two-column
layout[0].

> * Phone used verticaly and old screen with pixel witdh < 1280, should 
display the text with one column.
I often use my phone in landscape mode when reading text as i can put
more characters per line or have a slightly bigger font that eases
reading. I'd be sad if a system would force me into portrait mode

Regards
xq

[0] https://mq32.de/public/acbd2dc3ac6232e4a132408394c8e4cbe7fd3b7c.png

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3. solderpunk (solderpunk (a) SDF.ORG)

📅 Sent: 2020-05-18 16:38
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On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 06:33:30PM +0200, Felix Quei?ner wrote:

> I don't think we should specify how clients should display the data. We
> gain much from having variety in clients, their kind of displaying and
> everything. I for example use 1080p monitor with usually a two-column
> layout[0].

I assumed that this post was a suggestion for an interesting idea which
some client authors might care to discuss and experiment with, taking
advantage of the fact that content display is left to the client's
discretion in Gemini.  In which case, I'm all in favour of
experimentation and diversity and user choice on that front.
Multi-column rendering on wide screens certainly doesn't sound like a
bad idea, to me.

If it was a suggestion that we put something like this into the spec,
them I'm opposed and it's not happening.  Clients can do what they like.

Cheers,
Solderpunk

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4. defdefred (defdefred (a) protonmail.com)

📅 Sent: 2020-05-19 07:13
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On Monday 18 May 2020 18:32, Felix Quei?ner <felix at masterq32.de> wrote:
> I don't think we should specify how clients should display the data. We
> gain much from having variety in clients, their kind of displaying and
> everything. I for example use 1080p monitor with usually a two-column
> layout[0].
Agree.
it is only ideas about auto-layout :-)

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5. defdefred (defdefred (a) protonmail.com)

📅 Sent: 2020-05-19 07:35
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On Monday 18 May 2020 18:38, solderpunk <solderpunk at SDF.ORG> wrote:
> If it was a suggestion that we put something like this into the spec,
> them I'm opposed and it's not happening. Clients can do what they like.

Agree.

Suggestions are useful for Backend/Frontend Synergies.

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