A Gemini-style proposal

[Pete D.]

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> Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2021 14:56:22 +0000
> From: DJ Chase <u9000@posteo.mx>
> To: Andrew Singleton <singletona082@gmail.com>, Devin Prater
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> Cc: Gemini application layer protocol <gemini@lists.orbitalfox.eu>,
> 	Roberto Soccoli <roberto.vpt@protonmail.com>
> Subject: Re: A Gemini-style proposal
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> 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.

People have pointed out from early on that gemini is designed on the server side to serve text documents (as not-links, anyway), and if you need more than the native gemtext format has to offer, you are free to serve whatever text, be it Markdown or what have you. I think all the browsers will just display markdown in all its human-readable glory. Like if you view gemini pages is bombadillo, and  headline just look like

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