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Post items as replies to suggest agenda items for dev chat on July 15, 2009.

Agenda for today’s 2.9 dev chat: GSoC update (brief) Poll results so far Non-Media Features (some follow up from last week) ID contributors who want to take on coding specific features, individually or in teams ID which features need wireframes, and which (if any) are dependent on other features being finished first Deferring discussion of…

Starting next week, we’ll be attempting to follow an agenda during the Wednesday dev chats. If you would like to propose a topic for the July 8, 2009 dev chat, please submit it in the replies/comments to this post. We’ll post an agenda the morning of the dev chat (i.e., about 8-10 hours in advance).…

Deprecated clean_url() in favor of esc_url(), and deprecated sanitize_url() in favor of esc_url_raw(). #api, #escaping, #esc_url_raw, #security

Deprecated wp_specialchars() in favor of esc_html() (also: esc_html__() and esc_html_e()). Using wp_specialchars() with more than one param works for backwards compat. Also, esc_html() (or wp_specialchars() with one param) escapes quotes, just like esc_attr(). This buys security for pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to…

Trying to keep the commit candidates under control. Every time I look up the list gets bigger.

Standardizing and shortening the WP security escaping functions. attribute_escape() is now esc_attr() Additionally, you can do attribute escaping and translationtranslation The process (or result) of changing text, words, and display formatting to support another language. Also see localization, internationalization. in one go. Just add the translation function to the end. Like so: esc_attr__() — translate…

Going through some of the accessibilityAccessibility Accessibility (commonly shortened to a11y) refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities. The concept of accessible design ensures both “direct access” (i.e. unassisted) and “indirect access” meaning compatibility with a person’s assistive technology (for example, computer screen readers). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility) improvements. 2.7 was…

There was some talk last night about maybe doing a little design brushup on the adminadmin (and super admin) headerHeader The header of your site is typically the first thing people will experience. The masthead or header art located across the top of your page is part of the look and feel of your website.…

All of the redesigned widgets functionality is in place in trunktrunk A directory in Subversion containing the latest development code in preparation for the next major release cycle. If you are running “trunk”, then you are on the latest revision.. Only remaining is some improvement to the visual design for the widgets screen in adminadmin…