[tech] dumb vs. dumber

[Petite Abeille]

Meanwhile, on IRC:

[2020-12-21T11:12:29.422Z] <login> The one thing gemini should not do is allow the client to be 'smart', i.e., javascript 

Not allowed! But technically possible today.

Any text/gemini document can embed any number of attachments, curtesy of the data URI scheme:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_URI_scheme

It would take a trivial amount of work for a client to start acting on, say, text/javascript (or, more likely, something akin to text/css to start with). Or some cute image/gif. 

The horror.

Of course, Solderpunk could ban such heresies by pontifical decree. Alongside the evil authority's userinfo. And segments. And... whatever else doesn't toe the political line.

Such edicts will most likely have the same net  effect as the Pope's unwelcome intrusion into other people's bedroom.

Have faith.


N.B.  Previously on Gemini: 

The Problems of Transclusion (was Re: More silly text/gemini spec proposals)
https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/2020/001195.html