WordPress produces well-formed content
If you’re chewing on ‘Which blog software to choose?’ gum, I’d like to mention this about my favorite blog software: The power of WordPress lies not just in the myriad of advanced features it currently offers—those are the most visible ones, but also on some of the core features that many hardcore perfectionists are passionate about. For example,
- WordPress has the ability to natively correct most of these—so that you don’t have to.
- WordPress will not add a
<br />tag soup to your content—unlike Blogger or other software/service. It maintains well formed paragraphs and lists, tables or whatever describes the content in its correct context—just as the writer intended. - Also, be sure to look-up Typographical niceties and Intelligent text formatting on the features page.
In short, WordPress is a writer’s dream for writing well formed content—without the extra effort. This alone won my vote back in 2004 when I switched to WordPress.
You can spit that gum now.
Have you ever tried to produce well-formed HTML 4.01 with WordPress? It has a bunch of hard-coded XHTMLisms which make this a total pain in the ass.
Apr 9, 08 at 00:27No, I admit I haven’t tried HTML 4.01—but then again, my this post leans towards writing, than embedding/rendering things.
But that could change—with HTML 5 being considered as the logical successor to XHTML and HTML 4.01.
Apr 9, 08 at 21:54