gemini+submit:// (was Re: Uploading Gemini content)

[solderpunk]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 03:05:47PM +0000, solderpunk wrote:

Regarding:

> Heck, wiki nerds could write their own clients which can launch an
> editor pointed at a local copy of the resource being viewed, then
> calculate a diff in some format and submit *that* as a query, and the
> wiki software the server runs could apply the diff.

and:
 
> It should also be very easy to write an app targetted at "non-technical"
> authors which lets them submit chunks of writing up to 2 KiB or so, with
> an "append" link at the submission confirmation page to submit a follow
> up chunk.  It wouldn't necessarily be the smoothest experience in the
> world, but if most content could be written in a single request and 99%
> with one or two "append" requests, I think it would be usable enough.

I realise this works a heck of a lot better for textual content than
base64-encoded binary content, where uploading, say, a JPG photograph
would require many, many chunks.  I think I'm okay with this.  Gemini is
deliberately and unapologetically a text-first protocol.

Cheers,
Solderpunk