Mini-News: Format

Mini-News Format

v. 3.0 (alpha)

New way for representing webpage, - in the form of 3 files:

1. Title/digest

This is plain text file, up to 100 bytes.
No HTML tags.

Example

2. Main Content

This is fragment from XHTML file (between body tags), which contains main content only.

Requirements

Size: Up to 8K (3-5K optimal).
No images, no script, no hyperlinks.

XHTML syntax (inside <body> block).
Allowed tags: br, div, span, ol/ul, strong

!!! Note XHTML parlance for the br tag: 
And that <li> tag requires the ending pair </li>
+Remember: XHTML code must be in low case!

Example

Please note you can also use Stylesheet for your div and span tags. That stylesheet is built-in for all Mini-News.com pages. So, you can use write the code like this:

Highlight
Strong
Small
Cite
Code

See Demo

To have an idea how Main Content for your regular webpage can look like, try a simple Mini-News Converter:

make.mini-news.com

Converter is based on Mini-News.com's protection system that automatically validates every page before showing it to end users. In particular, it removes potentially unsafe script code, as well as most of HTML formatting.
In addition, Converter corrects input code to comply with XHTML syntax:

--> , --> , --> , <center> --> <div style='text-align:center'>, --> , etc.

It is strongly recommended to start updating your Main Content file from validating it with Converter! This will save TIME for your readers, because of not doing this kind of job on download.

3. Links/Ads

This XHTML file is an entry point to "everything else" (in your location).
It can include related links, references, comments, etc.
And of course, - advertising!

To be optimized for mobiles, it is recommended to keep minimal size for the Links page.
For example, use no more than ten links (comments, ads, etc.) per page.
Pictures, if any, should be only thumbnails (linked to full size images).

Example

Usage

Demo

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