Just posted a heavily revised version of my "abused trust" article, which I think addresses my thoughts below. Crossing my fingers for as good a reception to my points as I've had in recent diaries. Thanks, everyone, for your support.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!