a space case for transparent gemtext compression
Stephane Bortzmeyer
stephane at sources.org
Sat Jun 19 13:53:30 BST 2021
On Sat, Jun 19, 2021 at 01:13:20PM +0200,
PJ vM <pjvm742 at disroot.org> wrote
a message of 52 lines which said:
> > * how the end user of a browser without compression support will
> > know in advance if the file is compressed or not? From the file
> > extension? It is not always present.
>
> I expect authors would indicate this in the link text. So:
>
> => article.gmi my article
> => article.gmi.gz my article (compressed version)
As an user, my personal opinion is that it is not great UX.
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