approachabe & frugal & composable

Sean Conner sean at conman.org
Wed Jun 3 02:21:09 BST 2020


It was thus said that the Great solderpunk once stated:
> Basically we can now think of the line:
> 
> => scheme:restofuri Human friendly label
> 
> as equivalent to something like:
> 
> <scheme arg1="restofuri" arg2="Human friendly label"/>
> 
> text/gemini would be fully as extensible as HTML where client authors
> can just invent new tags like <blink> and <marquee>.  It's exactly what
> nobody here wants.

  "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip
thorugh your fingers."

  Here's the list of all registered URI schemes:

	https://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/uri-schemes.xhtml

  I will bet you that 99 44/100% of all links on the Internet are:

	https:
	http:
	mailto:
	file:	(and these are always a mistake on the part of the author)
	ftp:
	gopher:

  Honestly, I don't think you have to worry too much.

  -spc


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