A markup language and hypertext browser in 600 lines of code.
https://akkartik.name/post/luaML2
I think this answers a long-standing question for me about Gemini: is inline styling really so hard?
1 month ago 路 馃憤 not4uffinonmobile
https://akkartik.name/post/luaML2
The biggest thing is 3rd party support. Like I wouldn't expect @skyjake to add such a type in unless someone really speced it out and there were a lot of folks "wanting" that.
I'm pretty content with where gemtext currently is and I've seen back in the Netscape/IE days how if no one is formally creating specs how people can just add *whatever* tags and bring about a lot of havoc.
And I think if anyone was to pitch an inline style gemtext update that people would listen to, it would be Solderpunk themselves. 路 1 month ago
It's not a matter of difficult it is, it's a matter of taste. Solderpunk the creator of Gemini wanted a very minimal protocol and document format. In fact, they seemed to have wanted to make it even less, perhaps even stripping out the need for TLS.
You cna read about their musings here. gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/the-mercury-protocol.gmi
Nothing stops anyone developing a different document type with inline styles. Some have even thought about adding a mime type text/gemini+inline to indicate a more "markup" style gemtext.
That said, if people want something more like markup, just send markup. Gemini the protocol can transmit whatever. 路 1 month ago
gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/the-mercury-protocol.gmi
@ezra To be stylish of course! 馃槅
馃拝馃拠馃拑 路 1 month ago
Why would you need inline styling at the first place? 馃榾 路 1 month ago