@reiver ⊼ (Charles) Aug 31, 2023

🚨 Attention Gemini, Gopher, & Finger fans —

Adële ( @adele ) has something to show you:

https://smolweb.org/

Adële joins others who argue that — we shouldn't throw out all of the HTML "baby" with the broken-web "bath water" — but that instead —

We should use a restricted subset of HTML — and in particular XHTML.

https://mastodon.tetaneutral.net/@adele/110984755396680624

#smolWeb #smallWeb #smolNet #smallNet #smolInternet #smallInternet #WorldWideWeb #xhtml #gemini #geminiProtocol #gemtext #gopher #finger #fingerProtocol

About smolweb

smolweb.org promotes simple unbloated web. It provides resources to actors who want to participate.

Show threadSocial Justice Warrior🦍Aug 31, 2023
@reiver Why do we insist on being married with html?
Show thread@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 

@vegafjord

I don't want to speak for @adele , but I can tell you some of the arguments for HTML I have heard.

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Aug 31, 2023 at 4:17pmWeb
Show thread@reiver ⊼ (Charles) Aug 31, 2023

@vegafjord @adele

№1:

HTML has a lot of the features that a lot of people want when writing a document.

(Contrast that with gemtext, which, for example, lacks bolding, italics, (official) inline images, tables, etc.)

And…

№2:

Software to display HTML is ubiquitous.

(This is similar to how software to display ASCII and Unicode in the form of UTF-8 are also ubiquitous.)

And…

№3:

It is easier to bring over people from the broken-web if this new web also works in broken-web-browsers.

Show threadchrysnAug 31, 2023
@reiver @vegafjord @adele I'd also add that there is a lot of tooling to author HTML. People use different flavors of markdown, some prefer ReStructuredText, others asciidoc, but all of them already have converters to HTML, and those usually produce output that is also XHTML 1.0.