WordPress WYSIWYG

I just installed the WYSIWYG plugin for WordPress and it’s nice. I don’t think I’d use it myself but it could be very useful for newbies, especially by using the Image Manager to insert images into posts! It took only a small amount of hacking to get it to recognise the WPMU directory structure!
Problems – in Moz FF I couldn’t paste into the textarea as I got a "security error" popup. Inserting a link was problematic too – I had to get out of html view and add the <a href=""></a> bit myself!

Building Rich DHTML User Interfaces Revisited

This post by John Lim is a must-read for any web developer looking to develop a “rich client” on their sites.
He lists several tools and libraries to help in the process and I really like the look of JPSpan although it looks like I need to download it from the sourceforge CVS as there’s no tarball yet. I must have a play with it later as XmlHttpRequest looks dead useful!

From WordPress to Wordform – WordPress Review

Shelley wrote an impressive review of WordPress a few days ago and as she mentioned an entry here I noticed a few hits. It’s a long piece with lots of comments and interesting. I changed the method by which enclosures are created – from a text field to scanning the post for URLs. Many of the comments aren’t very positive about that change. Which is better?