[SPEC] Backwards-compatible metadata in Gemini

[easrng]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 5:01 AM Louis Brauer <louis at brauer.family> wrote:
> Oliver's proposal seems to be quite right because it makes everything optional, very easy to parse and can also be displayed without any special rendering support by the client. This way it's purely conventional and would still work for clients with and without support.

I agree this is probably a better plan.

> Regarding color schemes etc. Is it part of the plan that Gemtext pages will control the browser color scheme? Gemtext is a text-based markup, there should be no style information. The user should control the theme of their client/browser, not the page that is currently displayed.
I was thinking of having a single color that the client could use
however it wants, ex. to theme the title bar or color links or
whatever.

> Lagrange is a great example how rendering of Gemtext can be very beautiful without CSS-like styling whatsoever.

Lagrange could take the hue from the theme color and use it, or ignore
it or whatever.
I suppose this could be a slippery slope though.