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[–] riskable 27 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I remember when the web didn't have JavaScript.

Honestly, though it was much worse back then. I prefer the variety and features of modern browsing over (mostly) plain text.

What I wish we could do away with on the web is videos. Let's go back to just images and text, thanks. Animations are fine though 👍

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What I wish we could do away with on the web is videos. Let's go back to just images and text

Seconded. I really enjoyed pre-video Internet.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I third that. Videos are so incredible inaccessible. Want an easy-to-follow tutorial or heck a searchable document? nah mate video is all you get, and ads with it!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The ads make it even worse. I totally get the Gemini folks for wanting to simplify. But I do enjoy me a good webapp.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Jesus Christ...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

You do get searchable auto-transcripts of videos now, so that's a good thing. Some people work better with videos and find them more accessible. Best of both worlds. As long as they are not auto-playing and pre-caching, I'm fine with them existing.