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In my last post about release of WordPress 2.5, I mention that it’s impossible for the development team to release the version on the scheduled date as there were still so many issues are not resolved.

John Havlik quite rightly points out the main reasons for delay and I could not disagree with him. There are a good number of tickets were moved to 2.6 as there was no patch or developer assigned to them.

Matt released a Screencast and WordPress 2.5 RC2 covering the new dashboard and uploader and Release Candidate 2.

Also looking at Milestone 2.5 its seems the development team decided that it would be good idea they would release 2.5 after most of us have expired by setting the due date to 22 years in future. But little clue that suggest that it may be released on the April 1st, but hey they are just playing April Fool on us all.

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One year after the release of Internet Explorer 7 the first information about IE8 has been published: on the IE weblog it was announced that it will be called IE8 (not a surprise, really). It’s still unknown which features will be included, but it’s clear that Microsoft is listening carefully to the needs of web developers. They are also feeling the heat from Opera, which has sued Microsoft over proprietary features in IE. However, based on our own web statistics and those of W3Schools, it seems that IE6 is still more popular than IE7, so unfortunately it will take a while before we can optimize applications for IE7, let alone IE8.

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As an alternative for using the FusionCharts Flash-based charts you can now also use the Google Chart API to generate image-based charts. You just construct a URL with the chart data and configuration encoded in the URL variables and you’re done. Jon Winstanley created a wizard to quickly generate these URL, which is a real time-saver. The only limitation is the number of queries, which is limited to 50,000 a day.

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Amateur animators will now be able to use software that the production teams from the sets of The Lord of the Rings trilogies and the Chronicles of Narnia have used for free.

Antics Technologies has released a downloadable version of its realtime animation software Antics V3 that will allow users to create characters and sets in an easy to use, point-and-click format.

Alastair Woolley, managing director of Antics, said that with “simple techniques like drag-and-drop and a simple user interface, anyone with a story to tell or an interest in filmmaking can now bring their ideas to life in real time.”

Users will still have access to the more complicated actions involving special scenes and camera angles that will allow “cameras to view the action from whatever angle and positions you want”, he added.

The free version of the software has a library of scenes and characters including everything from a Wild West scene to a modern city landscape and for an additional fee, enthusiasts can purchase more scenes, import third party animations and share content with other users in an open forum.

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