Lightweight Unicode Author Client Hinting - LUACH proposal

[prisonpotato at tilde.team]

I like this idea, with a few exceptions.
For the logo (🌼) proposal, I like the favicon.txt proposal as a better,
terminal compliant way to solve this problem.
I'm also not sure how the Menu (🧭 ) is different from Home (🏠).

On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 12:22:21PM +0100, Luke Emmet 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