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XTH – the XHTML to HTML converter for wordpress

John Kilroy, September 9th, 2009
Keywords: Technical, Web Standards, Wordpress

Download XTH (v2.01) here

By popular demand here it is – version 2.01 of the original XHTML-to-HTML wordpress plugin. Now called XTH (bit catchier, no?), it is a complete rewrite of the original version and aims to fix the Javascript CDATA and RSS feed issues that the original suffered.
Caveats
OK, this version seems to successfully avoid parsing [...]

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Actinic ecommerce primer

John Kilroy, May 15th, 2008
Keywords: Ecommerce, Technical, Web Design

Welcome to my attempt at a brief introduction to the Actinic ecommerce websites that we are currently recommending to small and medium-sized businesses.
Some of these points are covered in other articles, but I thought it would be good to collect them here for your convenience, and so I have a single article to point to [...]

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Recommending HTML rather than XHTML

John Kilroy, April 18th, 2008
Keywords: Technical

I know the current fad is to serve web pages using XHTML doctype, but this is, in almost all situations, wrong. OK, count to ten, and read on.
Unless you are going to serve your pages with a mime-type of application/xml (which virtually nobody does), and therefore make your pages innaccessible to the 65% of your [...]

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FTSE 100 web site survey, 2006

John Kilroy, June 14th, 2006
Keywords: Technical, Web Design, Web Standards

This survey assesses the technical quality, usability and accessibility of the homepage on the main web site of each member of the FTSE 100 group of companies.

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