---- Le Sat, 19 Aug 2023 04:52:05 -0400 Michał Dec a écrit ---- > Hello Paul, > > You could've said "Gopher with TLS". Well, I did not known much Gopher (that seems to have come down in popularity at the end of the nineties).
I think Gemini is about middle ground between Gopher and HTML. Gemini seems to be Unicode (rather than ASCII), have 3 text heading levels (seems Gopher had none), have list and preformated text regions (that Gopher have, did not have). The fact also that carrier returns are respected in gemini-text, make it much more easier to create/format than HTML (comparing to the web rather than Gopher here). Contrary to HTML also, no stuff in the middle of text: links, change to bold, etc. Only links on full lines. It is probably this simplified HTML, but not to the point of Gopher, that make it interesting today. About TLS, seems most capsules (term for Gemini sites I was searching for in my previous message) are using self-signed certificates. Meaning, you know that the author is the same as last time you visited (unsure how well the gemini clients handled certificates history)... just not sure it is really who he claims to be. (My knowledge about TLS is relatively limited). _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
