Alt text and media types for preformatted text

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>> > One way I think gemini got this right was in using links for images.
>> > 
>> > Unfortunately, alt text for preformatted blocks does introduce
>> > content only likely to be seen by a minority of users.
>> 
>> One solution lies within your comment: remove preformatted blocks from
>> text/gemini so that we have to link to resources of text/plain or text/
>> whatever.
> 
> I like this suggestion.
> 
> Personally, if I could choose a client that displayed these inline when
> clicked I'd be happy.

Thanks! Me too.

> It would provide both content type and alt text by removing features -
> the feature that happens to be greatest extensibility risk in gemtext.
> Ideal.

Reminds me of some threads discussing sophisticated table syntax within 
gemtext vs. linking to such resources, e. g.

https://mailing-list-archive.gemi.dev/www/2021/004718.html

> The question isn't "is it useful?" The question is "can we do without?"