Upgrading to WP 2.0 shortly
if you come to visit and everything’s broken… that’s why.
… of course, if everything’s broken you won’t be able to read this now, will you. Hmm. Need to work on that “logic” thing.
Update: that was easy. Authors, you’ll notice a pretty significant change on post writing. This WYSIWYG thing will take a bit of getting used to, for sure. The code for the AJAX/WYSIWYG display is slower on my machine too. Hmm. Hope you know the keyboard shortcuts for your formatting, because you’re going to need them (ctrl+b, ctrl+i, etc.). I’ll have to look into that.
Update Update: nm. turned off the WYSIWYG default for now. Too slow and annoying. This eliminates the resizable text entry field, though. If you want it, you can turn it on in your user options page under Site Admin. One useful thing is to turn it on and then look at the help file for the keyboard shortcuts. The shortcuts are the way to go. The same ones work regardless of which editor you are using.
Oh, and before you get excited, uploads are disabled. Nothing worse than a 5Gb database filled with pictures. I could be persuaded otherwise, however, if you feel that such functionality would fill a need (that, say, couldn’t be addressed by getting publish rights to my gallery or something.
Update^3: overall performance is definitely slower, though I can’t think of a reason why that should be. It could be a client issue, as I have 12 tabs open right now and am burning a DVD (actually, it’s verifying the DVD, which could explain it). Still, that’s not an atypical situation for me, but the site response is. Let me know if the site is slower for you as well.