More silly text/gemini spec proposals

[Jason McBrayer]

solderpunk <solderpunk at SDF.ORG> writes:

> On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 09:56:44AM -0400, Jason McBrayer wrote:
>  
>> On the web, they make sense as a way of inlining short content, like
>> icons, and avoiding a server round-trip. But obviously, they don't make
>> sense for Gemini, and there's no reason clients should support them.
>
> There's no reason they *should*, but they can.  And some of them will.
> And then people will think of this as normal and expect it and design
> their documents around it, and the snowball will roll...

Can't we just say: "A spec-compliant client MUST NOT display data: URLs
inline; a client MAY treat data: URLs as links to media, to be opened
only on user request."?

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