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Is streaming a normative protocol expectation? (was Re: Documents with mixed languages)

DJ Chase u9000 at posteo.mx

Wed Dec 15 01:05:17 GMT 2021

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On Mon, 2021-12-13 at 20:09 -0500, Sean Conner wrote:

Yes, I get the complaint about having to read anciliary sources to
"properly" implement the protocol (my biggest beef---not many bot writers
have bothered reading the "best practices" document sitting along side the
specification [2]), but as I mentioned above, there are a ton of corner
cases that need to be considered when implementing the protocol that aren't
mentioned in either document (like text with no whitespace---how do you deal
with formatting?).
-spc
[2] gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/best-practices.gmi

Not strictly on-topic, but I don't think a Gemtext document withoutwhitespace is a corner-case because it doesn't need to be treateddifferently at all. It's just a document with only one line;parse the first three characters and format it accordingly.

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