Is streaming a normative protocol expectation? (was Re: Documents with mixed languages)

[DJ Chase]

On Mon, 2021-12-13 at 20:09 -0500, Sean Conner wrote:
>   Yes, I get the complaint about having to read anciliary sources to
> "properly" implement the protocol (my biggest beef---not many bot writers
> have bothered reading the "best practices" document sitting along side the
> specification [2]), but as I mentioned above, there are a ton of corner
> cases that need to be considered when implementing the protocol that aren't
> mentioned in either document (like text with no whitespace---how do you deal
> with formatting?).
> 
>   -spc
> 
> [2]	gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/best-practices.gmi

Not strictly on-topic, but I don't think a Gemtext document without
whitespace is a corner-case because it doesn't need to be treated
differently at all. It's just a document with only one line;
parse the first three characters and format it accordingly.

Cheers,
-- 
DJ Chase
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