What as complex and sophisticated as a publishing platform can be produced to total perfection, without causing someone somewhere to gripe? So first of all, this gripe is tiny and insignificant in the big scheme, although not unimportant (if that does not seem too much of a contradiction).
It is impressive that the WordPress people have bought some top web standards advocates to help them with their already web standards respecting, superb publishing tool, WordPress.
This new version, plus the huge step forward for the Admin UI and other good things outside the scope of this writing, are all to be praised. Thank you WP team from me, a user and designer in the WP space.
Which only leaves me to enumerate my gripe, which is, I wish that the visual editor had a button for H1 to H6, rather than these being on a drop-down list (effectively hidden-ish).
This release of WordPress is not intended for ‘normal’ use, it is a Release Candidate. And even if the final release does not have the H1 to H6 buttons as I would hope, I will not moan. Indeed, this is not a moan, only a positive wish.
Here’s hoping RC2 will include H1 to H6 buttons!
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Sun Mar 23 2008 at 9:40 am