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3.8 KiB
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76 lines
3.8 KiB
HTML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.2//EN"
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"http://www.openmobilealliance.org/tech/DTD/xhtml-mobile12.dtd">
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
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<head>
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<title>About Mews</title>
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<meta name="mews-profile" content="0.1" />
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<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
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<meta name="description" content="How the Mews directory works, what this site keeps, and how to get in touch." />
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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mews-0.1.css" />
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</head>
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<body class="mews-cool">
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<h1>About Mews</h1>
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<p>Mews Profile is a working draft. The format, the stylesheet and this
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site are all version 0.1, which is to say I am still changing my mind
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about parts of it, and the spec admits as much in its first paragraph.
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What a given version promises is written down at
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<a href="/spec/0.1" accesskey="1">mews.page/spec/0.1</a>, and it stays
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there once published.</p>
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<h2>How the directory works</h2>
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<p>Anyone can submit an address. The page is fetched and put through both
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of the checks in section 9.1: it has to validate against the Mews DTD, and
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it has to follow the handful of rules a DTD can't express, like keeping
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your images on your own site and the markup under 256 KB (and preferably
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under 64). Pass both and
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your site is listed at once, by nobody's leave but the checker's.</p>
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<p>Listed sites are looked at again every week, and one whose page stops
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conforming is dropped; since I hold no contact details there is nobody to
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warn beforehand, so submit the fixed page and it is listed again
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immediately. A site the checker simply can't reach gets a few days of
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retries before it goes, because being down over a weekend isn't the same
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as being wrong.</p>
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<p>The checks say nothing whatsoever about what a site publishes, and they
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can't: a page about anything at all can be flawless XHTML. So if a listing
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here points at something abusive, write to me and it comes out.</p>
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<h2>What this site keeps</h2>
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<p>A submission stores the address you gave, the domain it belongs to,
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what the checks found, and a salted hash of your IP address so that the
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rate limits work. The salt is replaced every month, so last month's hashes
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stop matching this month's, and raw addresses are never written down at
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all.</p>
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<p>Submissions and results are deleted after ninety days. No cookies,
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nothing loaded from anywhere else, and no analytics, which given the
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subject matter would have been embarrassing.</p>
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<h2>Thanks</h2>
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<p>The format rests on <em>XHTML Mobile Profile 1.2</em>, which the
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<a href="/dtd/xhtml-mobile12.dtd">Open Mobile Alliance</a> finished in
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March 2008 and which is still perfectly good. The stylesheet asks first
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for <a href="https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/"><em>Atkinson
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Hyperlegible</em></a>, made free for anyone to use by the Braille
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Institute of America, and then for
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<a href="https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro"><em>Source Code
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Pro</em></a> by Paul D. Hunt. Neither is loaded from anywhere: if you have
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them you see them, and if you don't, Verdana is waiting.</p>
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<h2>Get in touch</h2>
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<p>Bug reports, arguments about the spec, and sites that ought to be
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listed and aren't:</p>
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<address>hello@mews.page</address>
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<hr />
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<p>I would rather this stayed small: a format one person can implement in
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a weekend, a directory you can read in a single sitting, and pages that
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still open in 2046. If it grows much past that, something has gone
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wrong.</p>
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<p><a href="/" accesskey="0">Mews</a>
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· <a href="/check" accesskey="2">Check a page</a>
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· <a href="/directory" accesskey="3">The directory</a></p>
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</body>
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</html>
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