• @JasBC@beehaw.org
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    21 year ago

    Gemini deserves some credit for writing a spec and for trying, even if it has many issues. I hope Gemini improves based on this kind of review and critics.

    Does it? Seems like its just Gopher’s spec rewritten by people with very little knowhow of how you write a spec properly. Only thing they seem to have done competently is the spec for the page rendering-format (…which they accomplished by copying Markdown… and which Daniel points out, should not be part of the protocol-spec), everything else in the spec seems like every client YOLOs.

    • @Hirom@beehaw.org
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      51 year ago

      Yes, they do because it’s feeding the discussion on leaner Internet technology.

      You’re right in that Gemini has many issues and isn’t viable as-is. It’s clearly incomplete and early-draft quality, lots would need to be changed based on implementation feedback, including Daniel Stenberg’s feedback.

      As mentioned my bet is on a subset of web tech, not Gemini. Gemini appear right now to be a playground for implementation to work on UI, markdown use as HTML replacement, … but doesn’t provide a viable protocol.