[spec] comments on the proposed gemini spec revisions

[mbays]

On Mon, 11 Oct 2021 at 09:12, Omar Polo <op at omarpolo.com> wrote:
> 1. whitespace after gemtext elements

While we're on the subject, I had a little idea:
The spec could clarify that whitespace is to be stripped after the 
(possibly empty) linetype identifier for *all* line types (outside 
preformatted mode).

The main point is that this would apply in particular to the text 
linetype. Currently some clients strip whitespace at the start of text 
lines, while others display it. If stripping it were standardised, then 
we could safely use this as a quotation mechanism, allowing text lines 
which start with one of the magic sequences identifying another 
linetype.

This would also clarify what to do with whitespace after '>' and '```', 
which the current spec doesn't.

(Apologies to those on the list if any of this repeats what's in the 
gitlab comments, but I'm not about to fire up a javascript browser just 
to check...)