> I don’t think I’ve ever seen HN react so negatively to a project I thought the title was all wrong. It created false expectations. Too many people thought th

> I don’t think I’ve ever seen HN react so negatively to a project I thought the title was all wrong. It created false expectations. Too many people thought this was an HTML browser. I first came across Kristall when I was looking at GeminiSpace ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol) ) - the gemini protocol (a replacement for http(s)) plus GemText (a replacement for html). Kristall is a browser for GeminiSpace - first and foremost. GeminiSpace has embraced some aspects of the legacy small-web - specifically gopher and finger. Lots of the browsers in GeminiSpace support all three: GemText, Gopher and Finger. Some of these GeminiSpace specific browsers also try to support other types of markup languages (html, markdown) but that's not their primary use case. I can see that Kristall is trying to be more than a Gemini Browser. It can do well here if it was clear about the level of html it was going to support. I'd be very happy with HTML 3.2 ( https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Wilbur/ https://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Wilbur/ ) for example (mid-90s). Unfortunately, it doesn't even do 'turn of the century' HTML tables very well - something that the lightweight Dillo ( https://www.dillo.org/ https://www.dillo.org/ ) does well. As Kristall's level of html support increases; I'd love to be able to include it as a viable html browser (similar to Dillo and a bunch of other older browsers I have installed). As a GeminiSpace Browser, however, it is among the elite. This should have been its intro to HN.