May 10, 2003
XHTML 1.0 Compliant!
Woohoo! After wasting several crucial hours in the middle of the finals rush, I've made my page XHTML 1.0 compliant! If you don't know why web standards are important, then read here. If you are curious about XHTML, you can read a little here.
I couldn't have made the standards compliant without the use of the MT-Textile plugin for Movabletype. It converts all the escape characters (like &) into the appropriate codes, and does a bunch of other neat things too. If you use MT, paste URLs with &s, and you want to be standards compliant, you should check out this plugin. Also, checking for standards compliance helps you find bugs like unclosed tags and stuff, which I had one of.
You can now catch this button, 
, along with some other cool buttons that I jacked from Keyur at the bottom of my sidebar. The RSS buttons are for syndicating the posts on my site. With an RSS file you can get a summary of all the info on this page in a single file and standard format. The Geo URL button is probably the coolest of all. You can click on it to find other bloggers and web pages that are physically near me. Keyur found a guy blogging across the street from him. I think it's pretty neat, as it gives a physical context to web pages that you visit.
Don't you just love a paragraph chock full of links?
Posted by ramk at May 10, 2003 02:45 AMwhile cool at first glance. geoURL gets old real quick. do you reaaaallly care what the blogger down the street ate for breakfast? is it any different than what a blogger in vermont did for breakfast?
Posted by: jzlee at May 13, 2003 01:19 PMMany a bloyeur exist in the world. Hell why do you think half these people have blogs? Its to not feel so dirty when they go look at other people's blogs. Its like a soap opera, but you get to use your imagination.
Posted by: Akash at May 13, 2003 04:36 PM