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Re:Gemini's "uselessness" is its killer feature by squiggleblaz on Sunday June 13, 2021 @05:37AM (#27491178)
That's true. Perhaps the solution is to explicitly agree that the Gemini format will expand to a certain goal complexity - so that there's always several implementations, and it's possible to ramp up to something with more flexibility.

> But you can serve HTML pages over Gemini either way.

The important question is what people can read over Gemini, I guess. Do Gemini clients effectively render that? I imagine it would be difficult to take Webkit and make it work without supporting JS.

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Re:Gemini's "uselessness" is its killer feature by selfhoster11 on Sunday June 13, 2021 @10:34AM (#27492974)
Basic HTML doesn't need WebKit. If what you want is basic HTML 4 tags set with a couple of HTML 5 tags, this is not a big task.
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