There and Back Again

WordPress 2.0 has been released, its got lots of new features, but as far as I can tell they are all on the author side, not the reader. A full list of the changes is available over on the asymptomatic blog. There is a bit of AJAX in the interface as well, they could use it remove a couple more dialog popups, but editing is much cleaner now. If your running wordpress and are looking to upgrade there is a good article in the support forums walking you through the process.

The release process seems a bit odd though, the files exist, the website is updated, but there isn’t even an blog post announcing the release.
I’m also using the new akismet anti-spam plugin, I hope its good since they force you to create a blog at wordpress.com to use it.

Update:

Offical wordpress 2.0 release announcement is out, has the complete feature summary.

I’m in Chicago its friken cold

Megan and drove here and took pictures and notes of our journey, i’ll try to get them up eventually or at least link to them on her blog

Oh and thanks to weather.com for the image

If you’ve used HTML_AJAX to make something cool I’d like to hear from you.

If what you’ve created is publically accessible that would be even better.

Just leave a comment on this post saying what you’ve created and given a link to it if you can. Any suggestions on improvements that would make further development easier are also appreciated.

HTML_AJAX 0.3.1 is out, lots of good bug fixes, and iframe fallback support for Opera and IE with activeX turned off.

More details are available on the release notes on the wiki.

I would like to thank Elizabeth Smith for all her testing and bug fixing in this release.

Feature wise were getting close to beta release, its mainly getting a browser compatability test suite added in and doing some basic API review. If you have experience supporting an API without breaking bc, it would be great to get your feedback on HTML_AJAX.