Re:A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternat...
by Terretta on Saturday July 04, 2020 @11:38AM
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Images are generally not the point. Formulas, diagrams and illustrations are.
Managing image assets is tedious. The web design community still by and large hasn’t figured out a great standard way to do for images (versions with reversible/cherry-pickable diffs) what git does for code.
Instead, diagrams and formulas could follow the lovely ideas of mermaid, graphviz, dot, and mathjax inlined into the markdown as text. Tooling for VSCode handles inline diagrams beautifully for Markdown already.[1]
And then, inline SVG would let you illustrate nearly anything.
WSJ got by fine without photos, as did most journals for most of my lifetime, and Kindle books mostly don’t have them today. I wouldn’t be too quick to say a medium has to be filled with photos.
Managing image assets is tedious. The web design community still by and large hasn’t figured out a great standard way to do for images (versions with reversible/cherry-pickable diffs) what git does for code.
Instead, diagrams and formulas could follow the lovely ideas of mermaid, graphviz, dot, and mathjax inlined into the markdown as text. Tooling for VSCode handles inline diagrams beautifully for Markdown already.[1]
And then, inline SVG would let you illustrate nearly anything.
WSJ got by fine without photos, as did most journals for most of my lifetime, and Kindle books mostly don’t have them today. I wouldn’t be too quick to say a medium has to be filled with photos.
1. https://github.com/shd101wyy/vscode-markdown-preview-enhance...