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"Web only for documents, not apps" appeals to me. However, it's not a question of just shaving off features. Some features of the web are extraneous for that pu
by yakubin 4y ago
"Web only for documents, not apps" appeals to me. However, it's not a question of just shaving off features. Some features of the web are extraneous for that purpose, and some are missing. For example, rendering maths on the web portably still requires you to make your page into an app. The defaults (wrt fonts e.g.) are poor. And while I'm at fonts and maths, you can't assume the client has fonts appropriate for displaying maths, so now you need to bundle fonts with your page. The automatic hyphenation algorithm used in browsers is also visibly inferior to the one used in LaTeX.
And Gemini solves none of that. Maths is even harder with Gemini than with the web.
- MatthiasPortzel 4y agoIndeed. Gemini aims to be a text-first protocol. It doesn’t attempt to nor purport to be a general-purpose document transfer protocol. (Although you can transfer a PDF or LaTeX document over Gemini, most clients will simply download these files.)
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