=> 👽 slondr

Random, possibly terrifying thought: Has anyone looked into building an email client that supports text/gemini as an alternative to text/plain and text/html?

2 years ago · 👍 freezr, eph

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=> 👽 comatoast

Ah yeah, I thought about this after I said it @eph lol and that's pretty much what HTTP does with gopher bridges. · 2 years ago

=> 👽 slondr

Yep, one of the amazing things about text/gemini is that just rendering it as text/plain never looks bad, and a client which linkifies URLs is already 10% there.

I'd be interested in a Thunderbird extension or maybe a mu4e script that does the "hard work" of rendering. I doubt we'll get gmail webview on board but I don't care about gmail :D · 2 years ago

=> 👽 eph

I’ve caught myself writing emails using Gemtext inside plaintext or html files lol

@comatoast from what I understand, it’s more about rendering Gemtext over email rather than sending email over Gemini, i.e. having a client recognize and render Gemtext as Gemtext, rather than a weird plaintext file. · 2 years ago

=> 👽 freezr

I'll love the idea and I actually expressed my in interest in having such client... For instance one might start creating a plugin for Claws Mail or forking Sylpheed, who knows? · 2 years ago

=> 👽 comatoast

How would you get a protocol to use another protocol? · 2 years ago

=> 👽 tc

Not a bad idea. Even if most clients dont support it, gemtext doesnt look bad as just plaintext unlike html · 2 years ago