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gemini browsers

colecmac at protonmail.com colecmac at protonmail.com

Sun Feb 14 05:10:05 GMT 2021

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Hello,

Section 5.4.2 of the Gemini spec states:

clients MUST NOT automatically make any network connections as part of
displaying links whose scheme corresponds to a network protocol

So Gemini clients can display things however they want, but you can't make a compliant client that automatically loads images.

My question is - would it be against gemini protocol to build a browser that
would be able to open audio files or http audio streams as well as image files
in the same window? Or - has this already been done?

In the same window? Sure! Just not automatically. The Lagrange client already does this with audio and images. If you click a link that leads to one of those file types, it will open a player or image viewer inline with the document.

https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/

Hope this answers your question.

makeworld