Oliver Simmons oliversimmo at gmail.com
Tue Feb 23 22:31:50 GMT 2021
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On Tue, 23 Feb 2021, 21:12 , <nothien at uber.space> wrote:
Oliver Simmons <oliversimmo at gmail.com> wrote:
Metadata is NOT for presentation.
By that, I mean things like the favicon and color proposals, which were
also bunched under the 'metadata' umbrella category/name.
I understood what you meant, was just expressing my view of it :)
IMO the favicon isn't presentation, it's dosent modify the document itself.I don't really know if I like/dislike the favicons, so I'd like to refrainfrom commenting on this much, I just know that I don't like their currentform (of a seperatate request).
I don't know how webrings are organized on Gemini, but I'm not sure how the
author or date would matter there. From my understanding, these things
typically link to the whole gemini capsules, which should already provide
author information, and I don't think date info is relevant here.
I think there's been some misunderstanding - date and author etc don't haveanything to do with webrings as you said.
The issue is not that it would break pre-existing software, but that it
would make it less appealing to use, compared to new software which does
implement the new additions. This applies to clients and servers and
everything in between. That's the 'rift' I was talking about in my
original mail.
I understand your concern, and it's something we should aim to avoid, butthis kind of mindset prevents innovation.If we stop creating new, or modifying old, because the old would get leftbehind, we will forever be stagnant.(To clarify, I'm talking in general there and not just about Gemini)
I think the discussion of the how (format and what it would affect) hasbeen good, but we should stop with it untill a good why (reasoning and usecase) has been found.
(Sorry if this ends up as a HTML mail, I'm on mobile at current and for thelife of me can't figure out how to disable HTML mode, boo GMail devs 👎)
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