Matthew Mullenweg: I’m thrilled to announce that Version 2.3 “Dexter” of WordPress is now ready for the world ... if you’re a developer you’ll be interested in: 1. Full and complete Atom 1.0 support, including the publishing protocol.
It certainly is a dramatic improvement. And it was fun to be a part of the process. But full and complete?
Matthew Mullenweg: I’m thrilled to announce that Version 2.3 “Dexter” of WordPress is now ready for the world ... if you’re a developer you’ll be interested in: 1. Full and complete Atom 1.0 support, including the publishing protocol.
It certainly is a dramatic improvement. And it was fun to be a part of the process. But full and complete?
From the format side, I’d like to see support for a feature you see on the WordPress Codex. Namely a checkbox that says “This is a minor edit”. Such a feature could reduce the amount of times an entry show up your feed reader after somebody goes back to fix a few typos.
On the protocol side, I’d like to see support for foreign markup.
Internally, I’d like to see a little code cleanup. Atom entries are produced in two places, and consumed in two places. It would be nice to consolidate this a bit.
None of your points dispute the statement that the Atom 1.0 support is full and complete. There may be sawdust on the floor and a wobbly shelf, but the thing is out, and there’s finally an APP server that does something useful and is going to be widely deployed.
Now, bring on the clients, and lets see if all the work actually enables richer applications than the MetaWeblog API