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a space case for transparent gemtext compression

raph at raphm.com raph at raphm.com

Sat Jun 19 17:42:13 BST 2021

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Ben <benulo at systemli.org> wrote:

I think rather than bothering to compress individual files, we should be thinking about compressed archives/mirrors.

Oppen (author of Ariane) built this:

https://codeberg.org/oppenlab/gempub: A new eBook format based on Gemini Protocol's Gemtext. Gempub can also serve as a Gemini capsule archive format.

There is already support for GPUB documents in Lagrange. I don't think that support will (or should) become ubiquitous, but that was never the intention. The MIME type will be registered at some point, too.

Raph