Creating well-formed XHTML. Sjoerd Visscher: We have a simple client-side clean-up script that extracts well-formed XHTML from the WYSIWYG editor. It even handles pasted HTML from Word rather well. I discussed it with my collegues today, and we are willing to make that script available as open source if people are interested. Excellent! [Sam Ruby] 
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Diagonal shapes with CSS. Information on Border Slants (via Paul Hammond). Border slants are the effect whereby diagonal lines can be created using pure CSS, by taking advantage of the fact that thick borders around a box meet at an angle. This article describes the effect in detail and shows how it can be used to achieve a number of interesting shapes, then goes on to... [Artima Web Buzz] 
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Simon Carstensen writes to ask if it's safe to implement a harmonizer clone, ie will the API change. The answer is, it's safe. I don't expect the API to change. It works, I've heard from happy users. I'm happy. Haha. Go for it. [Scripting News] 
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XML-RPC, SOAP APIs derived from a RESTful API. This is an idea I had, which I posted on the XML-RPC, SOAP, and/or REST discussion. Sam Ruby thinks this is a "``"real winner of an idea"''", so I'll repeat it here:I think we can use the general idea from the MetaWeblog API: apply a given set of rules to convert XML data to the XML-RPC model. … [Sjoerd Visscher's weblog] 
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A Web Interface for Web Publishing: Today Sam Ruby launched a discussion of API options for weblogs, or more generally for Episodic Web Publishing, or even more generally for the Writeable Web. This is in conjunction with the ongoing effort to develop a next-generation syndication format aimed at the same problem. This essay considers the technical issues around a pure Web interface.... [I wish someone would pay me to mess around with this stuff all day. Apparently, that's what everyone thinks is already happening... <sigh>.] *