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Specs

XHTMLate WordPress comments

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve pulled the plug-in. It cleaned out the comment text, but not the name, URL, and email of the person. The email isn’t an issue, as WP ensures the email is clean; the URL and the name, however, are still an issue. A new comment isn’t the problem; edited comments […]

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Semantics

And Nerds become queens: Yahoo and Smart searches

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Great idea on the part of Yahoo to begin incorporating semantic web information into its search open platform. How deep the semantics will go, and in how many directions is still TBA, but I’m please to see interest in microformat and more structured semantic data via RDF. I’ll be even more pleased when we […]

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Technology Weblogging

Upgrading to WordPress 2.5: First, install Drupal

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Anil Dash had a clever and humorous, as well as telling, guide titled, A WordPress 2.5 Upgrade Guide. His advice? As you might know, WordPress 2.5 is about to be released, and we wanted to encourage WordPress users to upgrade. To Movable Type. I wasn’t even aware that a 2.5 upgrade […]

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SVG

ACIDBird

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Today’s design is based on the Open Road SVG image that was just uploaded. This SVG image is ideal for a background, because it lends itself to morphing. It’s also a horizontal image, which works better for a background image. The image is adding into the page in such a way that […]

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Web

Up Down browsers

A new beta version of Firefox is out. Chances are if you’re running beta 3, you already received a notice of beta 4. The new release has done interesting things with the toolbar. Unfortunately, it may have some roughness with SVG embedded using the object element. We’ll see. On the down side, Microsoft’s new IE8 […]