The most significative difference between gemini and the smol web is that Gemini is an intentional effort for simplicity, while a small web might be small for whatever reasons.

🏕️ Yretek

2023-11-29 · 6 months ago · 👍 norayr, miragearchitect

7 Comments ↓

🐙 norayr · Nov 30 at 00:50:

i think it is important that gemini is standardized, defined.

smol web does not define an html subset to use. i would like to have some html subset defined, which is simple but yet contains some useful modern/recently added features.

🏕️ Yretek [OP] · Nov 30 at 17:28:

@norayr there are some efforts to define the small web, smolweb.org being one... or marginalia.nu but they seem more a personal quest than a group endevour

🌧️ miragearchitect · Dec 09 at 13:00:

i think that gemini is a oversimplification.

I like the idea of having your own style, this removes from the creativity of the site's maker but i think its a way better user experience.

I think that gemini should have some decent multimedia support, in a way, i think my wishes contradict Gemini's missions, i would like something like it to replace the web.

A big thing that i am thinking about it, what to do about interactivity, we have moved apps from apps to the web, but how would be better?

I like the fact that on the web you can have math articles with math formul

and stuff, and you can alsk visualise it.

Maybe an sepparate app would work?

🌧️ miragearchitect · Dec 09 at 13:00:

i hate the text restrictions of the input field.

Is is a Lagrange thing or universal?

🐙 norayr · Dec 10 at 00:30:

i think for that (replace the web) it is just necessary to define a standard which is a subset of web.

http 1.1 is not that, we need a subset of latest http and html, very small, preferrably without js support.

but it will be very hard to agree on such subset.

🏕️ Yretek [OP] · Dec 11 at 21:59:

I don't think the exact subset is that important. I'd be willing to compromise, even to limit myself to a gemini-analogue. But... I'm focusing on following the "movement" rather than leading it... The way I see it for the smol web to be meaningful we need to 1. find ourselves 2. gather ourselves 3. lead ourselves... but it's a long, long way to Tiperary

🏕️ Yretek [OP] · Dec 11 at 22:01:

maybe... the chief thing is to keep the guns firing, let's do it the best we can and keep it small and try to gather ourselves