A Gemini-style proposal

[Andrew Singleton]

I'm reminded of the guy that went 'the internet is shit. return to PDF' and everyone else just

'PDF is terrible for a long list of reasons.'

So I ask now the same question as then without further rhetoric. 'Why?'

On 11/3/21 8:05 AM, Devin Prater wrote:
> 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 <mailto:r.d.t.prater@gmail.com>
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> On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 9:35 AM DJ Chase <u9000@posteo.mx <mailto:u9000@posteo.mx>> wrote:
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>     On Mon, 2021-11-01 at 12:41 +0100, Alex Schroeder wrote:
>     > I’d say no. The functionality of Gemini is pretty much done.
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>     Also, that's not line-oriented.
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>     > 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.
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>     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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