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> I think what the author wants is something like Gemini instead of HTML, but that has its own set of problems. Yes and no. I want it to be simpler than HTML (
by rodarima 4mo ago
> I think what the author wants is something like Gemini instead of HTML, but that has its own set of problems.
Yes and no. I want it to be simpler than HTML (which implies less features) but easy to parse. The problem with Markdown and other "text-like" formats is that they are designed to be written by humans (which is good) but complicates the parsing. I guess is more similar to the device independent format used by groff/troff before layouting.
>My plea for Dillo would be to instead just support a text/markdown mime-type natively and we can try for adoption in more browsers.
Dillo only supports a subset of HTML. Other formats like markdown are converted to HTML with plugins or read as plain text.
- niutech 4mo agoWhat's wrong with MD? Is parsing it more complicated than HTML? Why can't Dillo support rendering MD documents like it supports Gemini?