• sbvEnglish
    11·
    10 months ago

    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.

    • macniel@feddit.de
      20·
      10 months ago

      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!

      • sbvEnglish
        4·
        10 months ago

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

          • Ephera@lemmy.mlOP
            5·
            10 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
            4·
            10 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@feddit.de
              3·
              10 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
                5·
                10 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
      • NotJustForMe@lemmy.ml
        3·
        10 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.