2.9 miles under the water

it appears, some captain Nemo can change a ticket milestone in the .org trac (yeah, no Sandbox for you) without leaving any tracks.
congrats on 2.6 release! wander how many more tickets have had their milestone mass shifted this nemo way?
PS
and, yes, I like knitting (it’s almost as good as wanking). for quite a time, [...]

flow and interaction

While you bring up some good visual issues that should be considered I think there are some more fundamental usability issues that need to be addressed first, mainly with regards to flow and interaction. That’s where developments in 1.3 are focused right now.
The prettiest UI in the world that follows every possible convention is still [...]

b2\cafelog is not notable

so, yeah b2\cafelog, almost forgotten but nevertheless very important GPLed PHP3 hack, got its page removed from PediWikia. WP Happy wikipidors considered b2\cafelog as “Not notable” enough just because it “cannot stand on its own” despite it’s still being used (because it used to be the default blogware of online control panels provided by the [...]

why all my hosts are running PHP 4?

the short answer because
PHP sucks, the longer one
is really simple as well: *
there are too many well-
known PHP4 apps (including
those that power control
panels of hosting providers
themselves) which will be
borked on PHP5 without a
serious code redone to
workaround PHP5
backward incompatible
changes. * it’s too much
of a maintenance hassle for
web hosts to reliably run
both PHP4 and PHP5 on a
shared hosting. the only
path PHP.net offers is a

I’m using Rich Text Editor and I have problems!

FAQ NO LONGER blames Safari: Using Safari you cannot see the toolbar editors –
either
the Rich Text Editor or the basic one. This is not the fault of
WordPress.com.
It is a fault in Safari in that it uses…