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2015-09-04doc: design_www: more accessibility guidelines
Despite best intentions, things like strike-throughs and italics won't render well and will harm accessibility.
2015-09-01completely revamp URL structure to shorten permalinks
This allows common /m/ links to be used without a prefix, saving 2 precious bytes for permalinks and raw messages. Old URLs continue to redirect.
2015-09-01www: root atom feed is "new.atom" and not "atom.xml"
The MIME type entry for Atom feed relies on "atom", so allow properly-configured static file servers to serve it with the correct Content-Type header.
2015-09-01implement per-thread Atom feeds
This allows users to subscribe to only a single thread with their feed reader without subscribing to the rest of the thread. Update our endpoint notes while we're at it.
2015-08-23.txt links return an mbox instead
This improves compatibility and allows individual messages to be concatenated into an existing mbox without further modifications. "git format-patch" does something similar (but does not do "From " line escaping(!))
2015-08-20misc documentation updates
Threading in Xapian is mostly supported by now; so start documenting things.
2015-08-20replace references to lynx
Table rendering in lynx is crap compared to w3m and links. However, we still use it for filtering HTML since the renderer is otherwise nice...
2015-02-09doc/design_www: remove item for auto-generated links
SpamAssassin queries URI blacklists, so it's probably OK to start generating links in the future...
2014-04-26huge refactor of encoding handling
Hopefully this simplifies and corrects our usage of Perl encoding APIs.
2014-04-22fix quoted URL generation in feeds
While we're at it, make sure strange characters are escaped properly in Message-IDs. We'll need tests for all this behavior.
2014-04-21feed: there is only one atom feed, with all messages
This is not a blog. All posts, whether replies or not, carry equal weight.
2014-04-21doc: update design_www and add HACKING file
Document some of the stranger choices I've made.
2014-04-19various documentation updates
We have an HTML homepage, OMG!
2014-04-19cgi: index pages allow iterating some pagination
This allows WWW readers to slowly page through the entire history of the mailing list.
2014-04-10doc/design_www: add 301 URLs
We'll probably support these so they're easier-to-type and share.
2014-04-10cgi: wire up index + tests
Remove the specified /all.html while we're at it, we only have /all.atom.xml because it's convenient for feed readers.
2014-04-09doc/design_www: shorten URLs as much as possible
Message-IDs are extremely long already, so try to keep them short here.
2014-04-06doc: design_www note /full/ namespace for messages
We serve the short, abridge-quote version by default since it is (unfortunately) common practice to over-quote on mailing lists.
2014-04-05doc: add design documentation for WWW interface
Mainly, start with URL routes since that's what users usually see, first.