A Gemini-style proposal

[Charles Iliya Krempeaux]

It would be interesting to look at the existing browsers that support
Gemini & Gemtext, to see what other data formats they support.

Would also be even more interesting to compare that against which browsers
are currently more popular.

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Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.
cikrempeaux@gmail.com



On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 4:56 PM Pete D. <peteyboy@sdf.org> wrote:

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> > Message: 2
> > Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2021 14:56:22 +0000
> > From: DJ Chase <u9000@posteo.mx>
> > To: Andrew Singleton <singletona082@gmail.com>, Devin Prater
> >       <r.d.t.prater@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Gemini application layer protocol <gemini@lists.orbitalfox.eu>,
> >       Roberto Soccoli <roberto.vpt@protonmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: A Gemini-style proposal
> > Message-ID: <e5620ac174b95cea0d66a62e0b8bf77e4027db34.camel@posteo.mx>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
> >
> > 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
>
> # Headline
>
>
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