What should I do for Geminiworld?

[Emilis]

Both of them sound awesome.


On the Gutenberg: could you also split the books into smaller pages (a 
couple of screens length)?

A few years ago I made a website which served full book text in a single 
HTML page and had a tiny script which remembered the scroll position 
(saved it in a cookie).

What I learned from the project:

1. Just scrolling was more comfortable for reading than paging on my 
smartphone.
2. You can return to a middle of a book after ~a year and continue 
reading from the saved position without a problem.

Since cookies, JS and scroll positions do not work with Gemini, smaller 
pages could serve the same function.

Side question: has anyone tried to hack something Gemini-related on 
e-book readers?


On 11/30/20 10:15 PM, John Cowan wrote:
> Gemini work is nowhere near top priority for me because it's not a 
> responsibility, but I'd like to pay the community back a bit and these 
> are the ideas that come to mind:
>
> 1) Write (and possibly host) a Project Gutenberg server that will 
> allow you to search PG's plain-text etexts and serve them up.  This 
> would provide large amounts of (admittedly non-unique) content in 
> Geminispace. I've done some preliminary work on this.
>
> 2) Write (and not host) a server front-end that provides 
> cert-controlled access to a capsule or portions thereof.  Currently I 
> think only Molly Brown supports this facility, but this facility would 
> allow someone wanting to provide such private support to run any 
> Gemini server as long as it was not directly accessible from the 
> Internet and then aim the front end at it.  I have a good idea how 
> this would work, but haven't done any preliminary work yet.
>
> Preferences, suggested project names, comments?
>
>
>
> John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan 
> <http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan> cowan at ccil.org <mailto:cowan at ccil.org>
> Possession is said to be nine points of the law,
> but that's not saying how many points the law might have.
>         --Thomas A. Cowan (law professor and my father)


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