HTML as an escape hatch

Stacy Harper contact at stacyharper.net
Fri Sep 11 07:59:38 BST 2020


Hello,

> On the other hand, I think there’s a fairly, if not fully, general counterargument to all sorts of additions that we might want to make to the spec:

I think if you want additions, just use WWW. Gemini focus on content and
not formating.

> “There’s nothing wrong — or even uncool — about making a website with only HTML and, at most, 30 lines of CSS that looks great in Lynx.”

Yes you can create cool website using some standard html tags and a
little bit of css. But Gemini choosed its own gmi format specially to
prevent some implementations to add this kind of cool features.

> Thoughts? Counterarguments?

WWW decadence was fun, let's never do it again :)


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