Emma Humphries ech at emmah.net
Sun May 17 20:45:14 BST 2020
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ``` On Sun, May 17, 2020, at 12:36, Nicole Mazzuca wrote: > That seems like a mistake. Code highlighting is _really_ important for > code gemlogs, imo. Because there's already a large, potential base of content that would be ported to hosting on gemini, I'm worried that over-specifying the "alt-text" would create an extra set of steps for content creators. Perhaps the client can be opinionated, or ask the user what they want to do with a text block. "This text block has no hints, should I just render it as monospaced text?""This text block has the hint text 'art' should I render it as ascii art?""If I run across text blocks with alt text like javascript, fortran, ruby, css... should I apply code formatting" But the baseline for the client would be to say "it's a text block, I'm rendering it as monospace". -- Emma