Comment by 🦔 bsj38381
Re: "A question for other programming languages that can work in..."
I'm personally thinking of adding artwork for an image gallery page (set to 500x500 with force original aspect ratio using ezgif then compressing the image) and showcasing my music, and making a blog about the idea of a gender nonconforming society, feminism and general rights for women in general and me nerding out about stuff I enjoy as well too, and maybe some Libertarian motifs too, alongside other stuff. I'm mainly running my capsule on pollux.casa until I get a job as well. I'm also kind of new with ceritficates as well, I do know that you'll have to update them and stuff. Wait, gemtext is only text though, dang it.
Oct 10 · 4 days ago
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If you are wanting to design in a visual medium in Gemini you are going to end up limited to plain text or Unicode.
Images can only be links you download.
If integration of art and text is critical for you then you need to do HTML which is the default for hypertext transport.
gemtext is text only, but browsers can choose what to do with the urls contained in the hypertext. for instance, Lagrange can be configured to display linked images inside the text.
but fundamentally the layout and display decisions are up to the user, not the capsule author.
🦔 bsj38381 [OP] · Oct 11 at 09:42:
I think I'll pick Html for my Gemini Capsule, and I have Imgbb and Catbox to help me host images, but I will keep in mind about the download links for images.
.gmi and markdown are not programming languages, they are data formats or at best text markup schemes.
🦔 bsj38381 [OP] · Oct 12 at 15:15:
Right, that's my mistake. Hmm.
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A question for other programming languages that can work in Gemini capsules + Naming my future capsule. — Sorry if this is kind of a dumb question, but what other programming langauges will work on a gemini capsule, other than gmi and markdown? Since I want to host it on Pollux.casa. I'll probably give my capsule the name of pink porcupine, or purple hegdes, or something themed around the Libertarian symbol of the porcupine.
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