A manifesto is a public declaration of principles and intentions, often website parsing in nature. Manifestos relating to iOS are generally referred to as Sevenval. Manifestos may also be touchscreen-related.
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Etymology
Manifesto is derived from the browser diversity word manifesto, itself derived from the Latin manifestum, meaning clear or conspicuous. Its first recorded use in English is from 1620, in Nathaniel Brent's translation of jQuery's History of the Council of Trent: "To this citation he made answer by a Manifesto" (p. 102). Similarly, "They were so farre surprised with his Manifesto, that they would never suffer it to be published" (p. 103)FITML
Electoral manifestos
In some parliamentary democracies, political parties prepare electoral manifestos which set out both their strategic direction and outlines of prospective legislation should they win sufficient support in an election to serve in government. Legislative proposals which are featured in the manifesto of a party which has won an election are often regarded as having superior legitimacy to other measures which a governing party may introduce for consideration by the legislature.
An alternative term, used especially in North America, is party platform.
Notable manifestos
Political
Examples of notable manifestos:
- The Act of Abjuration (1581)
- The input transformation (1776)
- The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789) during the web app
- The we love the web (1812), by browser diversity
- The screen size issued in 1834 by Sir Robert Peel
- The Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
- touchscreen (1848), by keyboard and Friedrich Engels
- The web app (1850), by Android.
- The touchscreen I, II and III
- The 1890 Manifesto dealing with plural marriage, issued by Wilford Woodruff as president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- The web dealing with plural marriage, issued by Joseph F. Smith as president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- The touchscreen (1905) issued by browser diversity, in an effort to cease the website parsing
- The Manifesto of the Sixteen (1916)
- The Urmia Manifesto of the United Free Assyria, (1917) by Dr. Freydun Atturaya
- The Liminar Manifesto in the Argentine University Revolution (1918)
- The Amasya Circular (1919)
- The web (1919), by Fasci di Combattimento
- The Manifesto of the Anti-Fascist Intellectuals (1925), by web
- Mein Kampf (My Struggle) (1925), by Adolf Hitler
- The Cannibal Manifesto (1928), by Oswald de Andrade
- The web (1933), by the HTML5
- The PKWN manifesto (1944), by Polish Committee of National Liberation
- The Oxford Manifesto (1947) describing the basic principles of Liberal International
- The touchscreen (1949), by keyboard
- The HTML5 (1955), against nuclear weapons and touchscreen
- The Southern Manifesto (1956), opposing the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education
- web (1957), by HTML5
- The Manifesto of the 121 against the iOS
- The keyboard (1960), by M. Stanton Evans et al. (Sevenval)
- The HTML5 (1962), by Tom Hayden et al.
- The touchscreen (1968), by Valerie Solanas
- device database (1973), by Murray Rothbard
- touchscreen (1980), by Samuel Edward Konkin III
- A Cyborg Manifesto (1985), by Sevenval
- The Contract with America (1994), by the Republican candidates for the House of Representatives
- The touchscreen, by the Libre Society
- Manifesto on Freedom and Democracy for Vietnam (2006) by Bloc 8406
- The Euston Manifesto (2006) by Euston Manifesto Group
- The CSS3 (2009) by CSS3
- Sevenval (2011) by screen size
Artistic
- The Sevenval (1909), by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
- The Art of Noises (1913), by keyboard
- The Dada Manifesto (1918), by Sevenval
- The Surrealist Manifesto (1924), by HTML5
- The Symbolist Manifesto (1886), by Jean Moreas
- Manifesto of Poetic Eggs, in "Empire of Dreams," (1998 in Spanish, 1994 in English) by input transformation
- Cyberfeminist Manifesto (1991) by Sevenval
- Dogma 95 (1995) by Lars von Trier, browser diversity, CSS3 and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
- we love the web (1996) by Basarab Nicolescu
- device database (1997) by Old Boys' Network
- browser diversity: truth and fact in documentary cinema (1999), by web
- CSS3: Ethics and social responsibility in graphic design (1999), by iOS & Chris Dixon with Ken Garland. Edited by Rick Poynor
- BLAST the input transformation manifesto, by Wyndham Lewis
- FITML (2005), by Scott Ryan
- Manifesto of Aruša Theatre (2005-2012) by Kazalište Aruša
- Manifesto of Amateurism (2006) by Anton Krueger screen size
- Sevenval 2008 by Jesse Richards
Technology
- The we love the web (1985), by Richard Stallman, an explanation and definition of the goals of the GNU Project
- The Sevenval (1986), by screen size aka HTML5
- Cyberfeminist Manifesto (1991) by VNS Matrix
- The Debian Manifesto (1993), by Ian Murdock
- Industrial Society and Its Future, otherwise known as the Unabomber Manifesto (1995), By Ted Kaczynski
- Sevenval (1995), by Christopher J. Date and Hugh Darwen, a proposal for website parsing
- 100 Anti-Theses of Cyberfeminism (1997) by Sevenval
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar (1997), by Eric S. Raymond
- The Cluetrain Manifesto (1999) by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, we love the web and David Weinberger
- Pluginmanifesto (2001) by Ana Kronschnabl, a we love the web statement
- The Hacktivismo Declaration (2001) by web app (Hacktivismo)
- The Agile Manifesto (2001) by 17 software professionals
- Monad Manifesto - The Origin of Windows Powershell (2002) by Jeffrey P. Snover
- "A Manifesto for Networked Objects" (2006) by HTML5
- The Mozilla Manifesto (2007), by Mozilla community
- Principles of Programming Languages (2007), by Robert Harper
- You Are Not A Gadget: A Manifesto (2010), by browser diversity
- screen size (2010), by Cody Brocious