# gemini “go to parent” poll
January 13, 2022

Yay more Gemini meta from me, I'm sure everyone's excited :P.
Before you go removing my gemlog from your aggregator in disgust, I
have an NEC PC-8201A arriving tomorrow and plan to post about some
fun with that so just hang on a bit longer.

Yesterday I saw Acidus' post on using the “up button” (more
commonly “go to parent”) to navigate capsules:
“Up Buttons for exploring capsules”:
gemini://gemi.dev/gemlog/2022-01-12-up-buttons.gmi

If you look, I have “go back” links scattered all over on all of my
capsule's pages.  However, no matter how relative I make them they
make my capsule very brittle and difficult to rearrange and move
stuff around because I have to update *all* of those links.  It'd
be great if I could remove them, I'd just patch Kineto to add them
back in on my web mirror and everything would be good.

So I threw together a poll to see 1) do people's browsers support
the “go to parent” function; and 2) do people actually use that
function to browse Gemini?  I'd appreciate it if you went and
answered :)

Go to the poll:
/cgi-bin/go-up/poll.sh
View current results:
/cgi-bin/go-up/results.sh

Unfortunately responses are per-IP rather than per-client-cert
because I'm lazy and I didn't want to require people to use a
client certificate to answer.  Your IP is not shared anywhere and
I'll delete all traces of it once I close the poll.

Poll script source code (POSIX shell):
/cgi-bin/go-up/poll.sh?quine
Results script source code (POSIX shell):
/cgi-bin/go-up/results.sh?quine


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