Last updated December 10, 2012. Created by nedjo on May 4, 2005.
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ainz’s picture

ainz commented

Should the target standards be HTML5 and CSS3 now as opposed to XHTML/CSS? Just asking...

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mpp commented

seems like this is a duplicate for https://drupal.org/mission