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> simpler alternative (Gemini?) I never heard of that before. I'm off to investigate. I've often thought we need to rewind the clock on the internet, as the w
by blippage 5y ago
> simpler alternative (Gemini?)
I never heard of that before. I'm off to investigate.
I've often thought we need to rewind the clock on the internet, as the whole thing has gotten way out of hand.
What's to stop feature creep of Gemini, though?
- selfhoster11 5y ago> What's to stop feature creep of Gemini, though? The culture. A portion of Gemini users use it as a way to escape from the complexity of the modern web, including some small "browser" writers who want to target a small and easy to understand spec for their efforts.
- zh3 5y ago>What's to stop feature creep of Gemini, though? Gemini is deisgned to be non-extensible, for precisely that reason (if it becomes mainstream though, I'm sure the monetisers will find a way).
- foobar33333 5y agoGemini throws out way way too much. Inline links and image support for one. It feels like someone wants to have everything exactly as it was in the 80s. They claim to stop feature creep by not including any kind of optional data support like headers and the spec team will reject any feature additions. While I would be happy to have HTML/CSS exactly as it is and replace JS with a minimal WASM implementation that lets the website bring whatever tools it wants rather than relying on 1 billion JS apis.
- selfhoster11 5y agoI'd be surprised if the most popular Gemini clients didn't support Markdown.
- foobar33333 5y agoI would be. The Gemini devs would insist that nothing should be supported that doesn't work on an 80 char terminal with only the ascii charset.