Cognitive aspects of navigation in gemini space

[jan6 at tilde.ninja]

May 17, 2020 6:19 PM, "Brian Evans" <b__m__e at mailfence.com> wrote:
> As to harder for humans, the whole point is to make it easier for humans. The ``` and text should
> not appear
> to most users. It is not for them, it is for the client.

no...
point of gemini is to have a format so simple you don't *need* specialized clients,
that you can view it with basically TLS-enabled netcat equivalent... a super-simple client...
for example, => lines are quite readable, you can easily see where they go and what they're named with your eyes, without *needing* to do fancy "hide url, only show human-readable part", which is just a nicety fancy clients CAN do...

"oh the client will take care of it" is a bad way of thinking
at that rate you'll end up with something like html,
"hey, the user doesn't need to see the source! let's make it all fancy!", because y'know, html is readable...

and sure, you could keep a boolean or such for that, but why not make it easier?
it doesn't matter too much parsing-side, I suppose, sure...