For those, who do not know what the Gemini protocol is, think of it as a modern, light-weight HTTP alternative without CSS or JavaScript. In layman term, you could see it as Web 1.0 reinvented. It uses GemText instead of HTML. For folks who want to try it out, you can either install a Gemini extension for your HTTPs browser (which kinda defeats the purpose, as modern browsers are heavy), or download a dedicated Gemini browser like Lagrange. Here’s a few sites you can access in Gemini.
Personally, I love it, although I miss a few stuff, like for example, multimedia, streaming and stuff like that. The memory foorprint is very low, and pages are super-fast.
My understanding is that there’s no way to make anything that’s not a read-only website with it. So Gemini users could have a lemmy proxy to get a read-only view of lemmy, but it would not be possible for a Gemini user to interact with any website without exiting the Gemini client and using another program. This makes the protocol more of a novelty/toy/dead-end to me, but I can imagine some people want to keep it this way.
You can use server-side forms to update pages, just like we did before front-end HTML became Flash 2.0.
source? documentation? code example? I’ve searched and never found anything
Here’s a microblog service that’s built on Gemini that uses forms to get data from users. gemini://station.martinrue.com/
I’m not going to install a random program just to look at a webpage that’s not open source. If forms exist in Gemini, it should be documented somewhere.
It is open source! https://github.com/skyjake/lagrange
Not possible. The Gemini protocol lacks anything like a POST method. The only way to provide user input to a Gemini server is through arguments encoded in the URL.
Cause it’s so good to reload the whole webpage just to send a form
That only became a problem with giant ball of crap WWW sites. A <10KiB page is fine.