2021-10-17

Towards a proper FlightLog 8 -- Removing HTML

tags: flightlog

Why HTML?

I considered the simplistic conversion to html file format as a mere convenience for folks, who were not equipped with a gemini client. That includes myself, depending on where exactly I had entry to the online world.

Why not?

By now there is a "Browser in a Browser" named wobbly. A piece of JavaScript, which will make a Webbrowser capcable of rendering gemini/gemtext content.

https://warmedal.se/~wobbly/

So a gemini client is not strictly needed, with the possible exception of connections to capsules served as .onion services via TOR.

The current discussion about markdown shows, that some geminauts apparently have not understood, that gemini/gemtext also means, that the author of content surrenders any control of the representation of said content. IMHO, if the author wants that to a greater extent than gemtext provides, by all means use something more appropriate.

Removing HTML

As I have said yesterday,

> I shall consider to remove the html part of my capsule for simplicity.

/en/2021/20211016-complexity-marks-it-down.gmi

So here we go:

removed the http tree from the source of the capsule

removed bin/html-publish.sh

removed bin/gem2html.sh

removed the http Parts from .build.yml

removed mention of html version in en/about.gmi and en/operation.gmi

removed the http part of the .onion site (webserver, tor redirect)

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