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Title: the mews Slug: index Description: A quiet corner of the web, built on a standard that was already cut back: XHTML Mobile Profile 1.2.
the mews
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The web is a loud place now. Pages track you, shout at you, and weigh magnitudes more than the words they carry.
A mews is the lane round the back where the stables were: narrow, quiet, not on the way to anywhere. The web needs more mews: small sites, plain words, nothing watching.
The IndieWeb, small web, and alternative protocols like Gemini and Spartan already point the way. But a quieter, more private web doesn't need a new protocol. We already had one: XHTML Mobile Profile 1.2 (WAP 2.0), built for phones too limited for a complex web. Also strip away scripts and styling, and an old constraint becomes the point: quiet.
Get listed
The mews is this idea turned into a specification and also a directory of sites that opted in. Anyone can submit an address. The page is fetched, put through both of the spec's checks, and listed at once if it passes. Nobody reviews it.
To get listed, publish a site that conforms to the doctype, avoids script tags, nested tables, divs, and other unsupported elements and only embeds the mews-0.1.css stylesheet. Validate and submit it here. Done.
A quickstart guide on how to create content can be found on our Get started page.
Get in touch
Bug reports, arguments about the spec, and sites that ought to be listed and aren't, mail me or even better, send me a smolmail:
smol://randogoth@smol.place/olrtb3y4xr73w3gxgslejz4c6klgiawdu63ms2vm3nxekonqxk3aSo: write something. Link to a neighbour. Leave the light on.