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I'm a bit annoyed with the lack of _some_ inline image support. but making a browser for gemini is really really easy at least.

mostlylurks 5y ago
You could very easily make a browser that displays image links inline. Contrary to what is suggested in the sibling comments, you don't need to extend the format with special syntax for inline images.
haolez 5y ago
You could create a client that uses a non-standard markup and be able to render inline images just fine... oops! I think I just broke the web again :)
- MartijnBraam 5y ago
  That would be against the spirit of the whole Gemini thing
- SilverRed 5y ago
  Just put them in markdown and have compatible clients inline render an image and non compatible clients get a link.
  - edflsafoiewq 5y ago
    Compare this thread with the thread about <img> 30 years ago: http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.html http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.ht...
    - goodpoint 5y ago
      Thank you! The HN crowd has an extremely short memory.
      - SilverRed 5y ago
        "Short memory". That email was sent almost a decade before I was born.
        goodpoint 5y ago
        So? Historical memory is not based on your age.
    - krapp 5y ago
      The generic <include> tag being discussed there might have been nice to have. Also Marc Andreeson's suggestion of "a general-purpose procedural graphics language within which we can embed arbitrary hyperlinks attached to icons, images, or text, or anything" before JS or HTML5 canvas arrived on the scene is interesting. An alternative protocol that explored some of these evolutionary dead ends of the early web could be fun. [0]http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0209.html http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0209.ht...
woodrowbarlow 5y ago
lagrange has inline images. it doesn't prefetch them, but when you click an image link they get displayed inline. https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange (not affiliated)
Seirdy 5y ago
Lots of people have been spreading misinfo that Gemini doesn't support inline images. Gemini doesn't support auto-downloading of inline linked content. You click an image to load, and the image can be displayed inline if you choose a client that does so. That image can load inline, in a new window, be printed out twenty niles away and delivered by carrier pigeons, etc; presentation is up to the client.
gorjusborg 5y ago
I can appreciate your desire for images, but I like the lack of images! I like the idea of text-only, for the same reason I like retro games: you can't hide your lack of real content with flashy presentation. I think if people look at tech like this as the 'next web' they won't get it, but I think of it as something completely different: using gemini is more akin to reading a book to the current web being more like watching television. I can like television while also reading books. And to beat the metaphor to death, most of my favorite books do not have pictures. I would love to see a world where a vast trove of writing was available in a constrained environment like this.

mostlylurks 5y ago

You could very easily make a browser that displays image links inline. Contrary to what is suggested in the sibling comments, you don't need to extend the format with special syntax for inline images.

haolez 5y ago

You could create a client that uses a non-standard markup and be able to render inline images just fine... oops! I think I just broke the web again :)

MartijnBraam 5y ago
That would be against the spirit of the whole Gemini thing
SilverRed 5y ago
Just put them in markdown and have compatible clients inline render an image and non compatible clients get a link.
- edflsafoiewq 5y ago
  Compare this thread with the thread about <img> 30 years ago: http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.html http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0182.ht...
  - goodpoint 5y ago
    Thank you! The HN crowd has an extremely short memory.
    - SilverRed 5y ago
      "Short memory". That email was sent almost a decade before I was born.
      - goodpoint 5y ago
        So? Historical memory is not based on your age.
  - krapp 5y ago
    The generic <include> tag being discussed there might have been nice to have. Also Marc Andreeson's suggestion of "a general-purpose procedural graphics language within which we can embed arbitrary hyperlinks attached to icons, images, or text, or anything" before JS or HTML5 canvas arrived on the scene is interesting. An alternative protocol that explored some of these evolutionary dead ends of the early web could be fun. [0]http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0209.html http://1997.webhistory.org/www.lists/www-talk.1993q1/0209.ht...

woodrowbarlow 5y ago

lagrange has inline images. it doesn't prefetch them, but when you click an image link they get displayed inline. https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange (not affiliated)

Seirdy 5y ago

Lots of people have been spreading misinfo that Gemini doesn't support inline images. Gemini doesn't support auto-downloading of inline linked content. You click an image to load, and the image can be displayed inline if you choose a client that does so. That image can load inline, in a new window, be printed out twenty niles away and delivered by carrier pigeons, etc; presentation is up to the client.

gorjusborg 5y ago

I can appreciate your desire for images, but I like the lack of images! I like the idea of text-only, for the same reason I like retro games: you can't hide your lack of real content with flashy presentation. I think if people look at tech like this as the 'next web' they won't get it, but I think of it as something completely different: using gemini is more akin to reading a book to the current web being more like watching television. I can like television while also reading books. And to beat the metaphor to death, most of my favorite books do not have pictures. I would love to see a world where a vast trove of writing was available in a constrained environment like this.