A Gemini-style proposal

[Devin Prater]

Do we have to go PDF? Oh dear God. Okay if they're textual in nature, sure.
But you know someone is gonna start uploading scans. I mean people can do
that in HTML kinda, but thankfully it's harder to do.
Devin Prater
r.d.t.prater@gmail.com




On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 9:35 AM DJ Chase <u9000@posteo.mx> wrote:

> On Mon, 2021-11-01 at 12:41 +0100, Alex Schroeder wrote:
> > I’d say no. The functionality of Gemini is pretty much done.
>
> Also, that's not line-oriented.
>
> > People are of course free to write their own clients that do their own
> > processing. But the standard is: if you need that, serve Markdown or
> > HTML documents instead of extending Gemtext.
>
> Side note: I think it's best to serve PDFs instead of other markup
> languages because everyone can view PDFs. Many people don't have a
> markdown viewer/compiler installed, and serving HTML is, in my opinion,
> overkill for Gemini.
>
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> DJ Chase
> They, Them, Theirs
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