A Gemini-style proposal

[DJ Chase]

On Wed, 2021-11-03 at 08:08 -0500, Andrew Singleton wrote:
> 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?'

To be clear: I'm not proposing serving PDFs; I'm suggesting not to serve
HTML or Markdown (which is an HTML front-end, and can include HTML tags
such as `<script>`).

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

Also, this isn't a standard. It's aruably not even the defacto-standard.

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DJ Chase
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