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2018-03-15
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fter yesterdays post[0] I have received feedback[1] on mastodon
ointing to some effort to develop a new kind of hypertext / image /
ayout language. This effort runs under the tag #gopherine[2] and
ooks like a new client based on the ideas of gopher. I have not seen
nything else than the screenshots posted there and I have got mixed
eelings about this. From the (lack of) description I cannot tell,
hat the advantages over using any other markup langugage are. After
ll one can serve HTML documents over gopher just fine. Or one can
esort to reST or markdown or anything else. The latter two also
llow one to add pictures to text and with meta info one could also
int at the desired fonts a client should use, while degrading
racefully and being still readable in their text-only form.
o if you come up with another markup, maybe checking whether it is
till readable without a fancy renderer is a good litmus test whether
ou are adding value or just ballooning old features into a new
hape.
till with all that said I think it's good and nice to see
lternative experiments with formats and forms. It is still better
han just complaining and may reveal some core features that are
aluable and need to be preserved.
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0]: gopher://vernunftzentrum.de:70/0/ckeen/phlog/2018-03-14-What-about-a-simple…
1]: https://a.weirder.earth/@bb010g/99684275372391629
2]: https://a.weirder.earth/tags/gopherine
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