Welcome to Space-SML.com — the official portal for Space Markup Language (.space / .sml), the native Rust SpaceBrowser, the fault-tolerant SpaceIDE visual & code studio, and the upcoming Linux Space-Mint Distribution featuring the frosted-glass floating dock and tabbed Studio Browser file manager.
Declarative .space & .sml Pages
Replaces verbose HTML angle brackets, fragile CSS floats, and bloated JavaScript bundles with clean curly-brace blocks (tag "Title" (attrs) { ... }).
@state without DOM scripts@theme & @ambient audioNative Rust & GPU Spatial Navigator
Hardware-accelerated desktop browser engineered with eframe/egui, dual-sink rodio lossless audio, and on-the-fly HTML-to-SML conversion.
Fault-Tolerant Visual & Code Studio
A high-speed Rust studio combining a Rope text buffer, Tree-sitter virtual bracket recovery, and Dreamweaver-style drag-and-stretch visual authoring.
Minimalist Creative Workstation OS
A custom Debian/Mint-based Linux distribution booting directly into a distraction-free dark studio environment with SpaceBrowser and SpaceIDE built in.
.space file previews & indexing
Traditional web pages require dozens of nested <div class="..."> wrappers, fragile CSS flex/grid resets, external build pipelines, and megabytes of JavaScript just to switch tabs, play lossless studio audio, or compare restored photographs.
"Every element in SML follows one universal anatomy: Tag Name, Optional Title String, Optional Parenthesis Attributes, and a Curly-Brace Body Block."
panel, grid, deck, gallery, @theme."Songs of the Seasons".(span: 8, align: left, wrap: true).key: value properties, quoted paragraphs, and nested child nodes inside { ... }.hello.space DocumentSave as UTF-8 .space or .sml and open directly in SpaceBrowser or SpaceIDE:
// Minimal Complete Space Document
space "The River Studio" (version: "0.9.0", author: "Anne & Michael") {
@theme {
mode: dark
background: #090b10
surface: rgba(18, 22, 32, 0.88)
accent: #d4af37
font_heading: "helvetica"
font_body: "georgia"
}
grid (columns: 12, gap: 16px) {
panel "Welcome to Space" (span: 8, align: left, wrap: true) {
headline: "Declarative Spatial Publishing"
status: "Live in SpaceBrowser v0.9"
p {
"Welcome to a cleaner web. No closing tags, no CSS resets, and instant native rendering."
}
row (gap: 12px) {
link "Explore SML Reference" (href: "space://sml.docs/reference.space", variant: "button")
link "Visit Act II" (href: "act2.space")
}
}
panel "Quick Notes" (span: 4) {
ul {
li { "12-column responsive layout" }
li { "10 cross-platform fonts" }
li { "FLAC & Ogg audio engine" }
}
}
}
}
SpaceBrowser is a standalone native desktop web client written in Rust. It renders .space and .sml documents at 60+ FPS with zero DOM overhead, while also featuring an integrated HTML-to-SML Auto-Converter so you can browse standard websites and convert them into clean Spatial Markup on the fly.
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Streams 24-bit/96kHz .flac, .wav, .ogg, and .mp3 tracks natively. Supports simultaneous @ambient room-tone loops alongside multi-track album deck players with real-time waveform_glow and spectrum_master visualizers.
Asynchronous HTTP/disk texture caching with three native viewport modes: Standard high-res plates, interactive Before/After Restoration Sliders (mode: split_compare), and Stereoscopic 3D VR180 viewports (mode: vr180).
Even when static web hosts serve .space files with application/octet-stream headers, SpaceBrowser detects SML content automatically and renders the page directly on screen.
Click the </> Studio button in the top toolbar to edit raw SML live next to the active viewport, or paste any https:// HTML URL to translate legacy markup into structured SML nodes.
SpaceIDE can be launched from your desktop icon or directly from SpaceBrowser's toolbar (staying completely unloaded in RAM until invoked). It bridges visual drag-and-stretch layout design with a deeply resilient code editor.
} or quote " mid-sentence, Space inserts a virtual closing token so downstream syntax highlighting and the live preview never freeze or crash.ropey): Constant-time keystroke insertions and undo/redo snapshots across massive files.syntect), Trie-based autofill lookup menus (trie-rs), and right-click context actions for SML (.space), HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP.Every visual manipulation on the right-hand preview canvas updates the SML source code cleanly:
| Visual Action / Icon | How to Perform It in SpaceIDE | Generated SML Code Mutation |
|---|---|---|
| Select & Inspect | Click any box or double-click to open Property Inspector | Highlights node in editor; exposes title, span, align, font, and colors |
| Reorder Cards | Click and drag any card across a sibling card | Swaps node order cleanly inside the parent grid or container |
| Stretch Columns | Drag the right-edge resize handle horizontally | Snaps span: 1 through span: 12 dynamically on the 12-column grid |
| Stretch Height | Drag the bottom-edge resize handle vertically | Updates height: <px> on the selected panel or card |
| Align & Word-Wrap | Click Left, Center, Right, or Wrap icons in top toolbar | Injects align: left | center | right and wrap: true | false |
| Add Picture [Pic] | Click the Add Picture icon and choose an image file | Loads GPU texture immediately and appends an item or image block |
| Lookup & Autofill | Type any SML command, CSS property, or HTML/PHP tag | Opens prefix-tree popup menu; pressing Tab auto-completes block & braces |
Space-Mint is our upcoming lightweight Linux distribution (built on a rock-solid Debian / Linux Mint foundation) engineered specifically for composers, digital artists, writers, and spatial web developers. It strips away desktop bloat in favor of a unified dark-mode studio environment where .space is a first-class citizen of the operating system.
A minimalist, distraction-free floating dock centered at the bottom of the screen with subtle translucent blur (rgba(18, 22, 32, 0.85)) and amber gold active indicators.
@ambient and master audio transport controls right in the dock
Replaces cluttered legacy file explorers with a fast, tabbed Rust file manager designed around creative project folders (art/, audio/, spaces/).
.space pages, FLAC waveforms, and high-res photographyTuned out of the box for creative production and Rust engineering with zero telemetry or background bloatware.
Every .space document configures its look, feel, and interactive variables at the top of the root block using three clean directives:
@theme {
mode: dark // dark or light preset
background: #090b10
surface: rgba(18, 22, 32, 0.85)
accent: #d4af37
border: rgba(212, 175, 55, 0.28)
text_primary: #f0f4f8
text_muted: #94a3b8
font_heading: "helvetica"
font_body: "system-ui"
font_mono: "consolas"
font_display: "impact"
heading_size: 24px
subheading_size: 16px
font_size: 14px
}
@state {
active_tab: "stage"
preferred_font: "georgia"
modal_open: "false"
}
Tip: Setting mode: light in @theme automatically switches surfaces to crisp daylight tones (#f0f2f5 background, #ffffff cards, charcoal ink).
SpaceBrowser and Space-Mint Linux ship with a deterministic 10-font engine (including native macOS .ttc unpacking) so your typography looks identical across macOS, Linux, and Windows:
| # | SML Font Name | Category | Accepted Aliases | Primary Studio Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | system-ui |
Sans-Serif | sans-serif, sf-pro, roboto |
Clean UI controls, buttons & default body |
| 2 | arial |
Sans-Serif | arial-mt |
Neutral high-compatibility body copy |
| 3 | helvetica |
Sans-Serif | helvetica-neue |
Crisp neo-grotesque headings & panel titles |
| 4 | verdana |
Sans-Serif | verdana |
Wide letterforms for small UI labels & badges |
| 5 | georgia |
Serif | serif, ui-serif |
Warm editorial serif for lyrics, libretti & essays |
| 6 | times |
Serif | times new roman |
Formal academic & classical book layout |
| 7 | courier |
Monospace | courier new |
Typewriter manuscripts, scripts & fixed tables |
| 8 | consolas |
Monospace | consolas / menlo, menlo, mono |
Source code blocks, DSP telemetry & terminal |
| 9 | trebuchet |
Sans-Serif | trebuchet ms |
Expressive humanist subheadings & callouts |
| 10 | impact |
Display | display |
High-impact condensed act banners & posters |
visible_if), State Buttons & Modals
In SML, interactive tab switching, live form bindings, and modal dialogs work declaratively by linking @state keys to visible_if and button set: attributes:
@state {
view: "overview"
show_about: "false"
}
row (gap: 10px) {
button "Overview" (set: "view=overview")
button "Libretto" (set: "view=lyrics")
button "About Studio" (set: "show_about=true")
}
panel "Overview Stage" (span: 12, visible_if: view == "overview") {
"Rendered when @state.view equals overview."
}
panel "Libretto Manuscript" (span: 12, visible_if: view == "lyrics") {
"Rendered when @state.view equals lyrics."
}
dialog "About The Recording" (open_if: "show_about == true") {
p { "Recorded in 24-bit/96kHz stereo and authored in SML v0.9." }
button "Close Window" (set: "show_about=false")
}
Every input (text, number, range, checkbox, radio, color, file), select, and textarea binds automatically to @state[name], and any output (name: "...") displays the live value immediately.
index.space Studio Template
Copy this complete template into SpaceIDE or save as index.space to test 12-column grids, tab switching, lossless audio decks, split-compare restoration galleries, reactive forms, webring portals, and modal dialogs:
space "Space-SML Official Showcase" (version: "0.9.0", author: "Michael Saxon") {
@theme {
mode: dark
background: #090b10
surface: rgba(18, 22, 32, 0.88)
accent: #d4af37
border: rgba(212, 175, 55, 0.28)
font_heading: "helvetica"
font_body: "system-ui"
font_mono: "consolas / menlo"
font_display: "impact"
}
@state {
tab: "home"
listener_name: "Studio Visitor"
favorite_mix: "studio"
credits_open: "false"
}
@ambient {
src: "audio/room_tone_110hz.flac"
volume: 0.12
}
grid (columns: 12, gap: 16px) {
panel "Space-SML.com Ecosystem Hub" (span: 12, align: center) {
headline: "SpaceBrowser, SpaceIDE & Linux Space-Mint OS"
row (gap: 10px, align: center) {
button "Home Stage" (set: "tab=home")
button "Visual Gallery" (set: "tab=gallery")
button "Listener Register" (set: "tab=feedback")
button "System Credits" (set: "credits_open=true")
}
}
panel "The Architect's Desk" (span: 4, visible_if: tab == "home") {
avatar: "art/portrait.jpg"
headline: "Declarative Spatial Web"
status: "Engineered in Rust v0.9"
p (font: "georgia", size: 15px) {
"Crafted natively in Space Markup Language with lossless audio, fault-tolerant editing, and GPU-cached plates."
}
link "Download SML Coding Guide (.pdf)" (href: "files/Space_Coding_Guide.pdf", variant: "button")
}
deck "Featured Studio Selections" (span: 8, visible_if: tab == "home") {
visualizer: waveform_glow
track "01. Overture at Dawn" (duration: "03:48", bpm: 96) {
src: "audio/01_overture.flac"
notes: "12-string acoustic guitar, oboe & string quartet"
}
track "02. Lanterns on the Dee" (duration: "05:20", bpm: 112) {
src: "audio/02_lanterns.flac"
notes: "Fretless bass, woodwinds & 4-part vocal harmonies"
}
}
gallery "Studio Plates & Restorations" (span: 12, columns: 2, visible_if: tab == "gallery") {
item "SpaceIDE & Live Spatial Preview" {
src: "art/space_ide_screenshot.jpg"
caption: "Fault-tolerant SML & legacy web editor with sub-millisecond AST recovery."
}
item "Archival Plate Restoration" (mode: split_compare) {
before: "art/sleeve_original.jpg"
after: "art/sleeve_restored.jpg"
caption: "Drag horizontal split slider to compare original scan vs. restored plate."
}
}
portals "Connected Spaces & Webring" (span: 12, columns: 3) {
portal "Anne's Lyric Study" {
target: "space://anne.local/index.space"
badge: "Poet & Lyricist"
}
portal "SML v0.9 Specification" {
target: "space://sml.docs/reference.space"
badge: "Built-In Manual"
}
portal "Space-Mint Linux Project" {
target: "space://spacemint.org/distro.space"
badge: "OS & Studio Browser"
}
}
dialog "About The Space-SML Ecosystem" (open_if: "credits_open == true") {
p (font: "georgia") {
"Space Markup Language (SML), SpaceBrowser, SpaceIDE, and Linux Space-Mint are engineered for a cleaner, faster, artist-first web."
}
button "Close Window" (set: "credits_open=false")
}
}
}Includes the standalone SpaceBrowser client (with built-in HTML-to-SML converter) and the fault-tolerant SpaceIDE visual & code studio.
Download SpaceSuite v0.9 (.zip — 18.4 MB)Bootable 64-bit live & installable ISO featuring the frosted-glass floating dock, tabbed Studio Browser file manager, and pre-installed Space suite.
Download Space-Mint ISO (1.8 GB)
Offline PDF and .space reference covering all 12-column layout rules, @theme directives, 10 canonical fonts, and reactive @state controls.