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Re:A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternat... by lal on Sunday July 05, 2020 @03:11PM (#23741088)
as an early gemini convert this is one of the reasons I wish solderpunk would split the gemini protocol and text/gemini mimetype specs. gemini can serve more than text/gemini (e.g. markdown as you suggest), so embedding the text/gemini mimetype into the protocol spec seems rather like embedding the html spec into the http one
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Re:A look at the Gemini protocol: a brutally simple alternat... by peteyboy on Sunday July 05, 2020 @03:56PM (#23741424)
I agree in part, and disagree in part. I like that gemini has a "native" markup format, and that its simple and bare-bones as it is. It's a communications baseline, and other things are negotiable between client and browser?
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