Martin devel at datenbrei.de
Thu Feb 25 15:15:32 GMT 2021
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Petite Abeille <petite.abeille at gmail.com> hat am 25.02.2021 14:59 geschrieben:
On Feb 25, 2021, at 14:09, Martin <devel at datenbrei.de mailto:devel at datenbrei.de > wrote:
If we make it part of the visible page it would loose it's meta-character. It's just data then, as I think.
WAT? :)
This is how your email looks like in my MUA:
Martin <devel at datenbrei.de mailto:devel at datenbrei.de >
Re: [SPEC] Backwards-compatible metadata in Gemini
To: Gemini application layer protocol <gemini at lists.orbitalfox.eu mailto:gemini at lists.orbitalfox.eu >
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 14:09:50
The WHO, the WHAT, the WHERE, and the WHEN of your email. †
This is before any of the content itself.
Making these information visible is what makes it work.
I did not say, that you can leave it out. I even did not say, that meta data should not be visible.What I mean is, that this email arrives and everybody can see when this email was sent, because the meta data ist clearly seperated and technically usable by machins so that the mail agent can handle it and deliver this email, for example. I'd like to stress the "separation" from the content of the page. With "Cheers, Martin" you could not answer this email and with "written on some lonely afternoon in south of Germany" you would not know, when this was sent.
My point is: meta data seems to be important, but we need to clarify what we want with it, the use cases. This all I say knowing, that the protocol should be frozen somewhen. If we just say, let's get as minimal, as it goes, many things may not be possible in the future.
What I like best are concepts, like for example the programming language lua provides, that are flexible and elegant. Where can do much with a small set of features.
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