Comment by born-jre

Comment by born-jre 20 hours ago

There could be a way: This HTML-lite spec would be subset of current standard so that if you open this HTML lite page in normal browser it would still work. but HTML-lite browser would only open HTML-lite sites, apart from tech itch it could be used in someplace where not full browser is needed, especially if you are control content generation. - TV screens UI - some game engines embed chrome embed thing ( steam store page kind) - some electron apps / lighter cross platform engine - less sucky QML - i think weechat or sth has own xml bashed app froamework thing (so could be useful to people wanting to build everything app app platform - much richer markdown format ?

zero_bias 19 hours ago

It’s called WML/WAP

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AtlasBarfed 18 hours ago

I think we can do better than a 15x15 text window

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- exasperaited 14 hours ago
  
  WML/WAP got a bad rap I think, largely because of the way it was developed and imposed/introduced.
  But it was not insane, and it represented a clarity of thought that then went missing for decades. Several things that were in WML are quite reminiscent of interactions designed in web components today.
  
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  anthk 6 hours ago
  
  Gopher today (and even more Gemini) can do almost anything Wap did but without being a dead platform.
  
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  exasperaited 5 hours ago
  
  Have you read the WML 1.x spec? Let alone WML 2.x which never really happened. It had much more interesting scope than Gemini does.
  Gemini is not a good or sensible design. It's reactionary more than it is informed.
  
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