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Tidying WordPress's HTML
Terence Eden, who's apparently inspiring several posts this week, recently shared a way to attach a hook to WordPress's get_the_post_thumbnail() function in order to remove the extraneous "closing mark" from the (self-closing in HTML)
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Does a blog have to be HTML?
Terence Eden wrote about his recent experience of IndieWebCamp Brighton, in which he mentioned that somebody - probably Jeremy Keith - had said, presumably to provoke discussion:
A blog post doesn't need a title.
Terence disagrees, saying:
In a literal sense, he was wrong. The HTMLLightboxes Without JavaScript
Because I like my blog to be as fast, accessible, and resilient, I try not to use JavaScript for anything I don't have to. One example would be my "lightbox": the way in which images are blown-up if you click on them:
My solution ensures that:
You can click an image and see a accessibility, web development, progressive enhancement, that bacon sandwich picture, html, wordpress, cssThe Page With No Code
It all started when I saw no-ht.ml, Terence Eden's hilarious response to Salma Alam-Naylor's excellent HTML is all you need to make a website. The latter is an argument against both the silly amount of JavaScript with which websites routinely burden their users, but also even against depending on web development, html5, web, code, html, css, firefox, published on gemini, technology