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a space case for transparent gemtext compression

Stephane Bortzmeyer stephane at sources.org

Sat Jun 19 09:59:14 BST 2021

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On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 02:15:45AM -0500, Christian Seibold <krixano at mailbox.org> wrote a message of 3 lines which said:

If you're using zips, Lagrange doesn't take 4 user actions, it takes

1. If other browsers don't have this functionality, then tell

them. Browsers should implement this, not the protocol. It's that's

simple.

If I understand correctly your proposal, you suggest to change,neither the protocol nor the gemtext format, but to push browserauthors to recognize text/gemini+gzip and act accordingly.

In that case, I see two issues:

• how the end user of a browser without compression support will knowin advance if the file is compressed or not? From the file extension?It is not always present.

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ilovecompression.gmiz I cannot read it=

plain.gmi I can read it

• today, every browser can read every Gemini file. Your proposalseems to imply that some users will now see only a part of theGeminispace, the uncompressed one. This is the same problem we havewhen trying to use the Web with lynx or dillo: we can see only a partof it.