Petite Abeille petite.abeille at gmail.com
Thu Jun 11 17:55:58 BST 2020
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On Jun 11, 2020, at 17:52, Luke Emmet <luke at marmaladefoo.com> wrote:
As we have all discovered, clicking on a binary link is likely to:
- throw you out of your current reading context, into a graphical world
- be a slower download (and in gemini we dont know how long we might wait)
- might launch some external application, taking time and mental energy
Of course this is all under your client control. None of this has to happen haphazardly. UX and all.
(1) some common content could be rendered to text for preview purpose perhaps. A sort of sanitization.(2) external resource acquisition can be as asynchronous, non-blocking, and responsive as you choose to make them(3) a good UX would be predictable and configurable, with reasonable defaults