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Joomla! 2.5 Features

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Category: Search Engine Optimization

Created on Monday, 12 December 2011 00:56

Written by Administrator

The Joomla! 2.5 features are listed bellow:

• User Notes - basically an useless feature. Doubtfully it will be used by a lot of people.
• Mobile Template - the Beez template will be now mobile ready. Again not very handy feature as it doesn't provide API to determine if the user is coming from mobile device. As rarely someone uses Beez, it will be useless.
• reCaptcha support - not that useless as the previous two, however very disturbing for end users. Much better solutions like Akismet and Mollom were ignored.
• Offline Site Image - well, that's nice, however is very small improvement.
• Article Images - now will be attached to the intro text and blog views. Indeed nice feature, however not very well implemented.
• Text filters - now moved from the content settings. Nothing of great interest.
• Update module notification - nice one, however a very minor improvement.
• Search - probably the only big change, however I would not say it is improvement. The decade old Joomla! search will be now replaced by the buggy jxtended finder - a very poor extension used for example in the Joomla! Extensions Directory. It returns very poor results and doesn't works as expected.
• Mootools Upgrade - prepare again for a lot of JavaScript bugs.
• Database support - According to the new platform, Joomla! should support closed source database solutions (why?) like Oracle, MS SQLSrv and SQLAzure as well as other Open Source solutions like Postgree.
• JGrid Class - new stuff for developers to play. Knowing how much they love to rely on the API and not developing own classes for everything, I am more than sure it will be the most useless new feature.