My weblog now validates as XHTML strict, and my implementation of the Comment API will now produce and consume XHTML bodies.
Users of back-level browsers may find that the comment form doesn't remember you any more. If this function is important to you, you will need to find a browser that passes this test.
My WSDLs for the comment API (example) simply declare xhtml bodies as mixed sequences of any for now. Let me know if it would help if this were restricted in some manner.
Doesn't changing the MIME type to application/xhtml+xml mean that ~90% of the humans on the planet can't read your site?
I just surfed to diveintomark from IE6 and got back classic HTML4 - I'm assuming you're doing Accept header magic, yes?
Mark: I have a ways to go before I can do that.
Alek: thanks! Sharp eyes... I hadn't announced that I was putting WSIL elements into my RSS2 yet...
Don: Mark migrated to HTML 4. But you already knew that. ;-)
Mark: actually it wasn't as hard as it appeared. In fact it was pretty much exactly as you described: case sensitive css and defining styles on the html element instead of the body.
Don: don't worry, I'll be sure to support legacy browsers. Mark's article covers that too.
Ummm, it appears to have 7 errors when I clicked the validation link - mostly to do with the &user in the blogshares link.
:-)
Phil: my weblog software runs all of my posts through tidy, and every comment through a sanitize script.
Both have preview with spellcheck.
Is that enough to get you to switch? ;-)
Comments, trackback, and search, which makes me wonder what I was thinking installing the common codebase: now I'll have to figure out how to merge in yours myself. Oops. Where's my copy of Python for Dummies?
I'm not sure yet, but I might also require support for a separate excerpt: I started using them in MT mostly so I could punish people using aggregators that don't support content:encoded, but now I rather like being able to have an rss:description that's an actual description, not just crippled content. I'm not sure whether I actually require them, or whether I really want to keep publishing stuff that Radio would call a Story in a weblog. I might be better off calling them stories, and teaching mombo to only grab the excerpt for the weblog.
Phil, when I asked you what it would take... I didn't mean that you had to do it yourself. ;-)
I'm seriously behind on some real work at the moment, but will get back to holding up my end of the bargain w.r.t the merge RSN.
I do consider separate excerpts an important requirement.