Hello Paul,
You could've said "Gopher with TLS".
Best regards,
Michał
W dniu 19.08.2023 o 09:11, Paul Dufresne via Freedos-user pisze:
I recently learn of the Gemini protocol.
What is the Gemini protocol?
"1.1.1 The dense, jargony answer for geeks in a hurry
Gemini is an application-level client-server internet protocol for the
distribution of arbitrary files, with some special consideration for
serving a lightweight hypertext format which facilitates linking
between hosted files. Both the protocol and the format are
deliberately limited in capabilities and scope, and the protocol is
technically conservative, being built on mature, standardised,
familiar, "off-the-shelf" technologies like URIs, MIME media types and
TLS. Simplicity and finite scope are very intentional design decisions
motivated by placing a high priority on user autonomy, user privacy,
ease of implementation in diverse computing environments, and
defensive non-extensibility. In short, it is something like a
radically stripped down web stack. See section 4 of this FAQ document
for questions relating to the design of Gemini.
1.1.2 The gentler answer for everybody else
Gemini is a group of technologies similar to the ones that lie behind
your familiar web browser. Using Gemini, you can explore an online
collection of written documents which can link to other written
documents. The main difference is that Gemini approaches this task
with a strong philosophy of "keep it simple" and "less is enough".
"
"1.5 What kind of timeless user experience?
In a word, reading!
Reading text with a simple, clear, uncluttered layout without any
animation or embedded videos or sidebars full of distracting,
unrelated extras. If you use the "Reader Mode" in your web browser a
lot and you love it because you think that 99% of the time it makes
webpages ten times easier to use by throwing out all the useless
clutter and just giving you what you want, you'll probably be excited
to hear that everything in Geminispace looks that way all the time by
default.
"
"1.6 So it's just words, then? No pictures, no sound?
Not quite. Like HTTP or Gopher, Gemini can serve any filetype at all,
including images, audio, video and computer programs. There are tens
of thousands of images in Geminispace, about five thousand PDF
documents, and thousands of audio files!
But the only thing that a Gemini document can do with those files is
link to them. You can't embed images or videos inside a page, sticking
them in the background or between bits of text. Nothing ever plays
automatically. All you can do is say to your reader, "Hey, here's a
link to a picture, or a video, or some music". It's up to them whether
they click the link or not - in Geminispace, the reader is always in
control, not the author. "
I am writing this here, because I believe the low-resource needed to
run a Gemini Browser is appropriate for FreeDOS.
Well, I guess FreeDOS could allow for Gemini server too, but because
it would be the only application running on FreeDOS, it is probably
not much interesting.
I think it could be interesting to consider doing a Gemini set of
pages ... (they have a fancy name for that in Gemini community, but I
don't find it now) for the FreeDOS project.
And also consider porting one of the Gemini client to FreeDOS... there
is a list on the Wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)
Basically... this message is for considering this "new" technology
inside FreeDOS project.
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