Comment by ๐ skyjake
Re: "What if gemini-clients supported the U+000C FORM FEED..."
Hypothetically, Gemini clients would be more likely to support clearing the screen via ANSI escape sequences.
Streaming Gemtext is not a well-defined use case, though. It is difficult to see this ever happening in practice.
Sep 07 ยท 5 weeks ago
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๐ mbays ยท Sep 07 at 11:56:
Realtime interaction is possible in gemini, but you have to adapt to its limits. Erasing text isn't possible. Chess with a time limit is entirely possible. You can't have an updating display of the time left, but you could have a "60 50 40..." countdown. I thought about adding this to sggs.thegonz.net, but decided it wasn't a good fit. There's no chance of gemini changing to accommodate games or similar applications, we have to work with the existing constraints.
๐ stack ยท Sep 07 at 15:38:
Since the only way to use it would be to have a server dribble out data slowly enough to see then erase, the server load would be an issue. I've struggled to keep my extremely efficient games working on tildes and failed.
Original Post
What if gemini-clients supported the U+000C FORM FEED control character, erasing all page content? This feature could improve pages with streamed output, and short realtime multiplayer games for several players.
๐ฌ cthulhu ยท 8 comments ยท Sep 07 ยท 5 weeks ago
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