raingloom raingloom at riseup.net
Wed Feb 24 09:14:00 GMT 2021
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On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 12:10:35 +0100Solène Rapenne <solene at perso.pw> wrote:
On 23/02/2021 11:56, Sandra Snan wrote:
avr wrote:
a client that allows for normal edits but translates those into sed
commands when updating the page
These kinds of suggestions are along the line of having a client
that supports translating *asterisks* to emphasis, translating
<font family="foo"> to a specific font family, and so on.
There's nothing stopping anyone from implementing that kind of
thing at any moment and if it's gets traction it'll get traction.
We're in a similar situation as what broke the pre-standards web.
There's not a lot me or anyone else can do about that so I don't
worry too much about it♫🐞
However, for sending text I recommend email.
Here's an idea for how a wiki in a world where spam didn't exist
could work:
You send email to an address. The text of the page at the path that
matches the subject of that email is then set to the body of the
email.
Whether that subject is "nice/orderly/unixy/path" or "Completely
bonkers with spaces that'll need to get percent-encoded and trunced
to match the 1024 limit."
If people want to edit they can paste the old text into their new
email.
This is just from the top of my head and not something I'd put into
production any time soon.
there is nothing preventing users to publish markdown files instead
of gemini files. On gemini, it's not mandatory to have everything as
gemtext which would be reducing Gemini potential.
Like it is often done in gopher, people can have gemtext files as
menus with their texts files in markdown that could be opened with a
nice markdown viewer program, and links with gemini:// scheme from
the markdown file would be opened using the gemini client. That would
be like using opening a PDF from a website and clicking on a link in
the PDF :)
The workflow may not seem optimal but it's perfectly doable with the
current state of the protocol.
Could also just use a different protocol for (complex) editing. Maybeexport the source files over 9P.