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Just a quick note to say that I have disabled commenting for the site because JoomlaComment got broken again (which nobody informed me about btw!!!), presumably after the last Joomla! update to 1.5.9. Basically, I'd rather spend the time writing a new, cleaner, RDF-based comment system than fixing this one, since I've never really been happy with it. So if you want to get in touch, please use the Contact Form instead. Cheers! |
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I've been a fan of OpenID ever since it first turned up on the web, when they were offering bounties for implementing it in popular web apps. So I'm very happy about the scale of adoption it's achieved, and since I've started seeing places where you can use your OpenID to post comments on blogs etc. I thought it was about time I figured out what I needed to do to use my own URL as an OpenID, instead of the generic Launchpad one I've been using most recently.
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There are two reasons why XHTML has a problem with Google's AdSense code:
- It uses the javascript function Document.Write(), which XHTML can't handle because it would output new markup whilst the document is still being parsed.
- It creates an <iframe> element, which cannot be used with strict varieties of XHTML.
It's inconvenient, but fortunately not impossible to deal with. The solution is basically to render the ads as plain old text/html inside an object element. This does mean that you need to put your AdSense code into a separate file, referenced by the object element. An example using PHP...
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I can't learn Greek. Honestly, I have tried time and time again. I've never really been much of a language person but I don't remember having this much trouble with French or German at school, and that was not only without any genuine interest but also without the advantage of living in those countries. It has nothing to do with the different alphabet - I got that part fine, in fact I'd managed to learn the Greek script almost completely during one long bus journey in London before I moved. And with Greek being a phonetic language, that means I can read all the Greek words around me and know how they should be pronounced (mostly). But that doesn't seem to help at all. It's not just the complicated grammar that I'm having trouble with either - I can't even get to a point where correct grammar is vaguely relevant! |
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XHTML has been around long enough now that most people have heard of it, and most web developers know what to do to ensure their code produces valid XHTML. You will often see little notes in page footers claiming "Valid XHTML" or similar, and often enough, it even is valid XHTML. Unfortunately, however, the overwhelming majority of valid XHTML web pages might as well not be, because the browser has no idea that they are, and treats them as the bog-standard tag soup anyway.
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 plgSystemXHTML-0.2.zip | [An updated version that sets the MIME type and charset through JDocument methods in the onAfterDispatch event.] | 2 Kb |
| plgSystemXHTML.zip | [Joomla! System Plugin For XHTML] | 2 Kb |
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