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Why would a scientist need to publish images and plots on the web? Just write a blog post which is basically an abstract of your article and then simply put a link to a gorgeous PDF containing the full article filled with gorgeous visualizations.

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So you are using pdf to handle the fact that gemini is useless.

Or you could use http and have it all perfect on your website.

could you please explain to me then what the purpose if the web is? to do everything?

I'm not sure if it's web's purpose, but yes, it does everything. You can read, work, play games, watch tv, listen to music, all on the web. It is actually quite impressive.

you are implicitly arguing for browsers to become operating systems

Browsers are an app platform. That has been true for a decade now. They don’t exist to manage hardware, only to expose everything as nice and standardised apis.

I couldn't even display my papers abstract on Gemini if I wanted because I can't include formulas.

And I can't resort to "hard coding" formulas as SVGs as inline images are not allowed.

You can put images links in fine, between lines. Stick your svgs in and publish.

The lack of any form of typeface styling makes even basic citations clunky in Gemini.

Visualizations inline in text documents have been a staple of any written media, since... the beginning?

The web was pretty much invented just so people don't need to use PDFs

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