Rendering html and markdown on Gemini (was Re: Translation service)

[John Cowan]

On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 4:23 AM Luke Emmet <luke at marmaladefoo.com> wrote:


> For markdown or html files to work correctly, they would have to be
> rendered by the client.


Another approach is for clients to allow a Gemini-Gemini proxy, and then
write one that does whatever translations you want.  Since many clients
support proxies for HTML on HTTP, it shouldn't be that hard to add this
support, or to modify an HTTP proxy to speak Gemini instead.  I would
expect that these would normally be private proxies, as they need to share
the current cert with the client to avoid what looks like a MITM attack.

The default trick that most clients have to deal
> with unknown mime format is to open them in an external application. But
> that won't work properly - any relative path links won't work correctly.
>

Well, most formats other than HTML and Markdown don't have hyperlinks,
though I admit they are the most pressing cases.



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