More silly text/gemini spec proposals

Jason McBrayer jmcbray at carcosa.net
Fri May 29 15:01:51 BST 2020


poomklao at yahoo.com writes:

> I think that only one form should be picked, but I'm not sure which.
> Also, I know that solderpunk doesn't really like embedded stuff... I
> miss it form the Web though.

Inline images break the principle of "one request per page". I was there
when inline images were added to HTML, and while I was excited at the
time, in retrospect, that's where things started to go pear shaped.

> # Blockquotes
>
> Pretty much the same as in Markdown:

I actually really want blockquotes (pretty much the same as in Usenet,
as someone else pointed out). My only concern is how they might
complicate implementing line wrapping. I also think they should not be
nestable. 

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