• macniel
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      25 months ago

      Okay, Gemini seems a bit hardline. Not even Tables or Images?

      • EpheraOP
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        55 months ago

        Well, you can link to images and individual clients can then choose to directly embed those images inline, where the link is placed.

      • @micka190@lemmy.world
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        45 months ago

        I kind of get it.

        • No images is because they want it to work in a plaintext environment.
        • No tables because you just know someone is going to use it to format stuff that isn’t tabular data, though I guess there isn’t a way to actually render tabular data either…
        • macniel
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          45 months ago

          Mhm I disagree with your second point. Since you can’t use any styling on Gemini objects, you won’t get table layout as we had in dark ages of Html. With tables like in Markdown you can just lay out tabular data in an actual table.

          Mhm I guess with the plaintext environment we still can link to external resources like images and other multimedia or interactives.

          • @micka190@lemmy.world
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            55 months ago

            you won’t get table layout as we had in dark ages of Html

            left right
            All they have to do
            is use empty cells with spaces
            Where there’s a will
            There’s a way
            And people who use
            tables for layouts
            are fucking crazy
            enough
            to try