Sandra Snan sandra.snan at idiomdrottning.org
Thu Sep 10 20:21:42 BST 2020
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James Henderson <henderson.j at protonmail.com> writes:
The idea behind using ::: is that its rare enough to never really show
up and therefore makes a fairly solid delimiter. It also makes
manually writing a feed file easier because commas quotes and escapes
are not a concern at all.
Betting that your delim is rare instead of providing escapes isn't agreat design principle in my experience. Gemini itself has already beenbit by this as we saw earlier with the unescapable ```
TSV or CSV exist and have clients that can help write and read them.
Leo <gemini at gkbrk.com> writes:
While I like the idea of simple line-delimited formats for feeds,
I have to agree that Atom or RSS is simply the way to go here.
I'm not 100% decided yet, but the position stated by Leo here is whatI'm currently leaning towards.
As I wrote on irc://irc.tilde.chat/#gemini :
With the understanding that everyine got into Gemini for different
reasons, I got into Gemini after reading this web page.
https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope.html.
Creating a new format, I see as increasing scope
I believe I also for some reason also linked to this old chestnut:https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png
I could maaaybe get suckered in into supporting a format where everyentry is one line. Link iso-8601-date title. No description.
But my 2ยข is for us to stick with a format similar to Gemfeed's output.