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Browsers

Browser Buzz

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Browsers have been generating a lot of buzz this week. Opera just released Opera 9.5, which I’ve already downloaded and installed on all of my machines. I’m also going to be downloading and trying out the new Dragonfly JavaScript debugger, since I’ll be covering it (and other JS tools) in the second edition […]

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XHTML/HTML

Sometimes simplicity is the answer

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I never realized before that the difficulty with XHTML and allowing comments has a solution so breathlessly simple that I hit myself for not having seen it before. I have configured the htmLawed module to “scrub” comments, but that wasn’t the solution. The solution is not to allow a person […]

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Burningbird Technology

Live, on Drupal

I’ve now successfully made the move from WordPress to Drupal. The move was challenging at times, not the least of which I was so comfortable with WordPress and was moving into a completely new environment. However, now that I’m finished and I’ve had a chance to look around, I’m happy I’ve taken the time—both in […]

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Technology

XHTML and the Forum

An issue I had with supporting XHTML in my WordPress weblogs is that it can be difficult to control others’ input in comments. I solved the issue with Drupal by not supporting comments directly on posts. Instead, I’ve provided a forum, using the Drupal Forum module, here at RealTech. I’ve only provided the one forum […]

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SVG

XHTML and template.php

Since I use inline SVG in all of my sites, I need to serve my pages up as XHTML. I couldn’t find a Drupal module or option that triggers Drupal to serve the pages up as XHTML, so I added the following code at the very top of the page.tpl.php page: <?php header(“Vary: Accept”); if […]