I think Gemini is a breath of fresh air. These people who develop web standards won’t stop at all 😂
Guess it’s actually a pain to write a browser from scratch
Yes, I’m in full agreement. However, I see myself getting sick of all the new things coming up as “web standards”, probably that looks like building on a weak foundation to me, so obviously gemini looks like a far better option to me for content in text. Not sure how multimedia would work with Gemini though.
@retronav@twtxt.net But what about pictures?
@carsten@yarn.zn80.net hardly any known clients have inline image support, and while you can link data: URIs for them, it’d probably make it needlessly complex @retronav@twtxt.net
I personally convert them to ASCII art and paste as preformatted text, hah
@mutefall@twtxt.net it’s actually rather easy, except for the post-processing as it has to be finished manually. I use https://github.com/jd-develop/img2ascii myself (even though it’s a Python script, lol)
@novaburst@twt.nfld.uk That would be one way of doing it. But don’t you want to document things sometimes? Or do you save those things as PDF?
@carsten@yarn.zn80.net As @novaburst@twt.nfld.uk suggested, ASCII images is probably what we’re looking for 😉
But simply having links with alt text to any hosted image might work if it’s too complex/ looks meaningless in ASCII.
For videos, documents, the same thing can be applied, except you cannot really ASCII-fy them.