Comment by 😎 Smokey

=> Re: "Animations in gemini" | In: s/discoveries

Its a neat little bit of flavor but as skyjake says its cost is non-trivial.

=> 😎 Smokey

2023-07-11 · 2 years ago

3 Later Comments ↓

=> 🚀 jsreed5 · 2023-07-11 at 15:25:

This feature is only usable to some clients and not others. In my own case, I use Deedum on Android and Kristall on desktop, neither of which support streaming. The result is that I only see a static page that loads slowly. Of course I'm in the minority opinion that streaming should not be allowed in the Gemini protocol to begin with, but that's a different discussion.

=> 🚀 stack · 2023-07-11 at 17:30:

This is a horrible thing to do, both to the server and the client!

And yet I have to admit it is kind of fun.

=> ☕️ mozz · 2023-07-11 at 19:13:

Here's another example, this capsule uses streaming to simulate slower baud rates for ansi art scrolling.

=> — ansi.hrtk.in/

Original Post

=> 🌒 s/discoveries | — her.st/

Animations in gemini — I found this capsule off of #discogem. I was surprised because the loading of the page had an animation on every page. so of course I dug a bit. The owner of the capsule created their own server called Atlas and it enables this through streaming. I've seen this before with a chat program but never for animations. Figured I'd share and see what folks thought. cool or distracting?

=> 💬 gritty · 7 comments · 6 likes · 2023-07-11 · 2 years ago