More silly text/gemini spec proposals

Luke Emmet luke.emmet at gmail.com
Fri May 29 22:17:23 BST 2020


Sorry ignore my last remarks about spiders in the email below, I didn't spot it was just referring to data:// URLs.

Still it seems hard to enforce a singular client behaviour with respect to interpreting content.

Luke

> On 29 May 2020, at 22:09, Luke Emmet <luke.emmet at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 29-May-2020 21:37, Jason McBrayer wrote:
>> 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."?
> Can't see that would work - how about automated clients like spiders that crawl to build a search index for GUS etc?
> 
> I think whilst we may disapprove, we cant enforce the behaviour of a client to interpret content served.
> 
> - Luke


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