I discovered Gemini in 2023 and really enjoy it. I like the minimalism. I like that page presentation is up to the user. I’ve even come to appreciate the line-based nature of its markup, because theoretically at least, it means a screen reader user knows that elements are always arranged top to bottom.

I say “theoretically” since I have yet to run into an accessible Gemini browser for Windows, which is unfortunate since Gemini’s whole deal is text first.

And to head off the inevitable comment about Linux, in order to have an accessible app you need an accessible OS for it to sit on top of.

    • Ephera@lemmy.ml
      2·
      11 hours ago

      Yeah, Markdown’s link syntax uses round brackets to enclose the URL, so some clients will think the URL is complete as soon as they encounter a closing bracket, but URLs can actually contain round brackets themselves.

      The URL can be enclosed in angle brackets to avoid this:

      [Gopher](<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol)>)

      Which gives this: Gopher

      • jqubed
        2·
        11 hours ago

        I never knew about the angle bracket option; do you know if that’s fairly widely accepted among the different markdown variants?

        • Ephera@lemmy.ml
          1·
          6 hours ago

          It’s part of CommonMark, so should be almost universally accepted: https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/#link-destination

          But perhaps worth adding that the angle brackets are arguably the canonical way of designating a URL in CommonMark in general.

          So, you know how on Lemmy (and many other places), you can just paste a URL and it’s automatically turned into a clickable <a/> element? Yeah, that isn’t part of CommonMark.
          Instead, you’re supposed to wrap the URL with angle brackets:

          <https://example.com/>

          Which turns into: https://example.com/

          Here’s the spec for that: https://spec.commonmark.org/0.31.2/#autolink

          Frankly, I only know that, because mdBook doesn’t create links from just a pasted URL, it requires the angle brackets or the []() syntax.
          (Kind of fair, since it’s for writing proper documents, but it does keep tripping me up.)