Stephane Bortzmeyer stephane at sources.org
Wed Feb 24 14:35:12 GMT 2021
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On Wed, Feb 24, 2021 at 03:08:32PM +0100, nothien at uber.space <nothien at uber.space> wrote a message of 34 lines which said:
I'm sorry, I wasn't considering the case of gemtext as a storage
format, only of it as a communication format.
Me too.
Let me make my argument more specific: author and date and related
metadata isn't useful to a receiving /client/ because there's
nothing it can do with it.
Like John Cowan explained, you have a very restricted view of what aGemini client is. A crawler, for instance, is a /client/.
But even with "clients for interactive human use" such as Amfora orLagrange, metadata could be useful, for instance to help to bookmarkresources, or to present them differently.
I ... didn't think about this.
This is what happened to the Web with the WHATWG (which, in allfairness, was a complicated issue but one of the main reportedproblems was that the W3C was not listening).