kometes@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Question for those knowledgeable about alternative web protocols (gopher, gemini, etc): Would it be possible to create a tool that translates http sites to those formats, on demand?English
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2 months agoYou are conflating content with delivery protocol. The websites would look the same regardless of protocol.
How do you think they would look? To get the news web page in your example, you are still going to have to have to render the page by running the client-side scripts required by modern websites and render some type of markup language for layout. It’s not like web pages are secretly sitting in pure text on a server somewhere…