Static Site Checker (an opinionated HTML nitpicker) version 0.2.2 (c) 2020-2024 dylan harris see LICENCE.txt and LICENSE.txt for copyright & licence notice https://ssc.lu/ https://github.com/devongarde/ssc

ssc analyses static X/HTML snippets, files and sites:

• HTML living standard, Jan 2005 to Apr 2024
• HTML Tags/1.0/+/2.0/3.0/3.2/4.00/4.01/5.0/5.1/5.2/5.3-draft
• CSS 1/2.0/2.1/2.2-draft, 2007-2023 snapshots, more
• SVG 1.0/1.1/1.2 Tiny/1.2 Full/2.0/2.x-draft
• MathML 1/2/3/4-draft
• XHTML 1.0/1.1/2.0/5.x
• finds broken links
• server side includes, mostly
• many ontologies

with opinions on:

• standard english where dialect is required
• legal but slovenly HTML
• abhorrent rudeness such as AUTOPLAY on

It does NOT:

• analyse or understand scripts
• analyse or understand XML or derivatives, except as noted above

It can output:

• 'repaired' HTML (not XHTML)
• HTML with resolved server side includes
• JSONs of ontological content
• website statistical information
• deduplicated websites

ssc -h for a usage summary.

ssc -f config_file analyse site using preprepared configuration

ssc directory analyse website based in directory

To build & run:

1. Follow the build instructions in build.txt
2. Gleefully run ssc. It will misbehave if you are insufficiently gleeful.

This is an alpha version of ssc. It is incomplete. What is complete needs refining. The developer needs coffee.

It may contain unexpected features. If you encounter one, please help improve ssc by collecting the following information (where relevant) and forwarding it to the developer:

• version of ssc;
• precise version of the operating system;
• hardware architecture and system information;
• detailed description of the problem;
• detailed description of the steps to recreate it;
• copy of output file/s and relevant logs;
• copy of pages/website being analysed;
• precise command used;
• configuration file/s used, if any;
• any ndx file or other pre-existing file used during the run;
• any known workarounds, fixes or solutions;
• a video of a dance interpretation of the issue. Email everything to mail@ssc.lu (if the collected files are more than small, please use a public fileserver and email the link). Do NOT send anything confidential. Furthermore, unless you state otherwise, we reserve the right to publish some or all of the information sent in future versions of ssc, usually in the test suite. If you have a fix, you are invited to submit a pull request on github, at https://github.com/devongarde/ssc . Thank you.

SSC can be run in a CGI environment. This is intended for use with OpenBSD's native httpd web server (https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.8). You are reminded that SSC is not production software. Do NOT expose it to untrusted data sources, such as those found on the open web.

Notes on names:

• recipe: a nod to Vernor Vinge's "A Fire Upon the Deep";
• tea: without tea, nothing works; then there's builders' tea;
• sauce: makes the dull tasty; identifies linguistically weak pedants;
• toast: toasts code; i liked burnt toast;
• heater: i'm not stopping now;
• unii: my preferred plural of unix: to my ears, both unixes and unices sound like they sing castrato.
• andor: and/or sans ancienne; land of Gift (aber nicht das Gift)

SEE ALSO build.txt notes on building ssc gen.txt a model man page usage.txt how to use ssc releasenotes.txt fishless chips LICENCE.txt ssc licence information LICENSE.txt formal GPL 3 licence more licences licences for borrowed external content

Background I have a website, arts & ego, at https://dylanharris.org/. It has approaching 60G of original content. It contains hand coded HTMLs 2 to 5. It is a complete mess. Despite a long search, I could not find any tools to properly identify its flaws. Anything I did find was at most cursory.

Then came the cow flu*.

Hence ssc is a covid project that grew out of hand.

• corvid means crow, thus covid means cow. by the laws of sympathetic spelling.

Unabashed Opportunism If you appreciate modernist poetry or abstract photography, click on books at https://dylanharris.org/ for gen.

REMINDER This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

dylan harris mail@ssc.lu December 2023