You probably didn’t notice, but the world just changed again.

Capra hircus, your friendly neighborhood weblog, was redesigned today. The effect on the overall appearance is minimal. A few subtle layout changes happened (collect them all and win a really dull prize), and the sidebar on the right is hidden by default (show it by clicking “menu” in the upper-right).

The referral box is gone. It was just one long, pointless battle against spam.

Trackbacks are gone. Nobody uses them anymore. Comments are temporarily absent. I might write a new system for comments; I might use somebody else’s.

So the content-type was going to be application/xhtml+xml. Then I found out IE hates standards (what?). Then I patched Blosxom to only give you application/xhtml+xml if your browser accepted it. Sadly, Safari transmits Accept: */* just like IE (which doesn’t, in fact, support the new MIME type), so the vast majority of readership would see no change. And, to further complicate things, Mozilla-based browsers, in my testing, didn’t distinguish between XML and XHTML (although the purported explicitly to accept the more restrictive MIME type) and displayed useless rammed-together content or an error and the source code. So, the content-type remains archaic: text/html. Apologies.

Page titles are now far less informative. This might not change.

The main upshot is that the source code is a whole bunch more relaxed. Was it worth the effort? Almost.