Lightweight Unicode Author Client Hinting - LUACH proposal

[colecmac at protonmail.com]

This is an interesting proposal, but I feel like it would become a
chore when writing, something you'd try and remember to do because it
wouldn't feel natural. Which is probably the opposite of what we want.

I also don't see the total need for this, could you maybe explain more
about a use case?

makeworld

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On Thursday, June 4, 2020 7:22 AM, Luke Emmet <luke.emmet at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone
>
> I've been thinking about various discussions we've been having on the
> list related to how to use and build on/augment the geminisphere in a
> way that is true to the gemini vision, such as how do we:
>
> -   indicate and find comments between pages in a lightweight gemini-way
> -   provide ways to optionally "include" images or text
> -   signal where is your a site home page
> -   provide a common navigation menu
> -   indicate the location of your site logo
>
>     I've started a proposal to define a way for an author to signal these
>     elements in a lightweight, text based and optional way, dubbed
>     "Lightweight Unicode Author Client Hinting for Gemini - LUACH"
>
>     The idea is to codify a minimal set of conventions we can use to build
>     further structure on top of the gemini space to support additional
>     purposes.
>
>     I must emphasis the intention is for this to be wholly optional and I
>     dont think it needs to become part of the canonical standard, as it is
>     just a set of optional text conventions. Maybe if successful it could be
>     a set of common conventions that are becoming adopted, and a good
>     practice. It codifies things that are emerging as common conventions we
>     see in geminispace, or more widely. For example "standard" names for
>     home page or ways of communicating comments textually
>
>     => gemini://myowndomain/home.gmi Home
>
>
> => gemini://xyzdomain/cookery/egg-recipies.gmi Responds to XYZ thoughts
> on how to cook eggs
>
> Or as we already see the use of unicode glyphs to indicate comments such
> as the speech bubble 💬 emoji or house 🏠 for home.
>
> This is intended to be very lightweight and helpful for readers using
> simple command line clients as much as it might be for richer clients
> who may provide additional UI. There isnt any overhead for authors apart
> from providing these optional hints in their link text, which can help
> everyone.
>
> The "responds to" and "has comments" can be used by search crawlers to
> build a meta layer of who is commenting on whom within gemini space
>
> I've put it in Github here:
>
> https://github.com/LukeEmmet/GeminiLUACH
>
> Comments and further thoughts welcome
>
> Best wishes
>
> -   Luke