By Jan Dembowski on February 16, 2008
Over at my brother Stefan’s blog, he’s been running Movable Type for years. It bugged be because his server was slow, the theme was dated, it lacked a good archive page, etc.
Mostly I did not like the look or the speed. Stefan takes really good pictures and I thought he should have a [...]
Posted in Software | Tagged Movable Type, WordPress, XHTML
By Jan Dembowski on August 25, 2007
Making the Google embedded code XHTML Strict was pretty easy and involved replacing <iframe> with <object> and massaging some of the parameters.
This works in Firefox and Opera. Naturally it does not work in Internet Explorer 7. There is a hack that might get it to work which I will keep fooling around with.
The iframe [...]
Posted in Geek, Software | Tagged Internet Explorer, XHTML
By Jan Dembowski on July 6, 2007
I’ve had some free time so I’ve added so I went through all my posts (153!) and made sure they validate as XHTML strict. I’ve also played with this theme and added the image rotator for the header.
Using Matt’s rotate.php script, I created a directory called and dumped some images in there. The images [...]
Posted in Geek, Software | Tagged WordPress, XHTML
By Jan Dembowski on May 3, 2007
WordPress themes are usually either XHTML 1.0 Transitional or XHTML 1.0 Strict. The first line of the generated web page has the Document Type Definition (DTD) sent to the browser to define which.
My main theme that I use FastTrack, was defined as transitional. Just for kicks I changed it to strict and figured [...]
Posted in Geek, Software | Tagged WordPress, XHTML
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