This tiny plugin filters Wordpress’s output to produce HTML instead of XHTML. It is simple to use and will ensure that your Wordpress Blog stands at least a fighting chance of being properly standards compliant.
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Background
The Wordpress platform is based with the best intentions, from boots to brow, on XHTML and has been ever [...]
Speaking objectively, web pages can be analysed in terms of three main qualities:
Technical, or ‘build’ standards
Interaction quality or Usability
Accessibility
Some organisations, such as the British Government, issue their own guidelines regarding some of these subjects, and usually Government agencies are required to work to those standards. We are familiar with and happy to work to such [...]
» read on...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 [...]