Proposal: Simple structured form specification

[Jason McBrayer]

nothien at uber.space writes:
> Russtopia <rmagee at gmail.com> wrote:
>> [... form proposal ... ]

> The issue is that Gemini (and gemtext) is too close to being frozen
> forever. And most Gemini content out there doesn't need to use forms.

This is my personal opinion, but I would go further and say that Gemini
doesn't need forms. If you have fully featured forms, you can implement
largely any kind of application (excluding very interactive ones), and
in the history of the web, this lead to re-implementing the whole
internet over port 80. I don't think Gemini needs to do that. The one
input lets you select different dynamic versions of a page, like for
different locales, or search results, or similar.

Having more complex forms is a temptation to implement applications on
Gemini, rather than using pairings of protocol+client that are more
appropriate (e.g. using NNTP for a message board).

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