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by unethical_ban 1005 days ago
Gemini is an interesting educational project but the lack of ability to serve even static pictures or video is an absolutely crippling mistake.
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Gemini can, in fact, serve up images, audio and even video. The specification disallows inline display of such types, but it can serve them fine.
Ah. I misspoke, but my assertion is the same - the lack of inline display is a hamper.
I prefer the lack of inline display; I would rather it not display the pictures inline in the document anyways. However, that is something that the client does anyways, rather than the server. (Also, I think it does allow inline display if the picture and the document linking to it are both local files (or are both inside of a ZIP archive which is a local file), although even then it should have the option for the user to disable them.)

(Furthermore, it seem to me that Gemini is not a very good protocol for serving a video file anyways, because it does not have Range requests and stuff like that.)