Re: Tables in Gemini

news@zzo38computer.org.invalid writes:

I agree that laying out regular data is a useful thing, but I think this
is not the best way to do it. I think linking to a separate CSV file would
do it (although CSV lacks data types and some of these other features, but
it is simpler to get it to work).

I agree that linking to a separate CSV file is a better way of
representing tabular data in Gemini. CSV has a lot of limitations and
issues, but they're well understood by now. You could also represent
tables in a less ambiguous way with XML or JSON (again, as linked
files), but CSV has more of the Gemini nature (power to weight ratio).

If a client wanted to provide a way to expand linked CSV files to inline
tables the way some do with images, that's purely a client-side issue
that can be done without affecting the spec, servers, or other clients.

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