Chyrp theme development has been put on hold for some days, as Chyrp will be updated to PHP5 and PHP5 only.
None of the themes I will release for Chyrp will support IE6. There are enough of reason to upgrade to IE7 and if you can’t upgrade you should whether buy a legal Windows XP or not waste your valuable company time blogging.
Platforms such as Windows 2000 are not supported by MS anymore, there’s no reason to provide a backward compatibility for non-supported systems.
Period.
I could list many reasons why I have switched from WordPress to another platform, but the biggest annoyances were following:
The mix Automattic/WordPress confuses me. Although the whole wordpress.com platform, as marvelous as it is, totally falls within the GPL principles, I think a huge greyzone has grown around the business side of developing WordPress(.org). It is clear that every code change made to the WordPress(.org) change can directly be used by the Automattic team for their wordpress.com platform. Automattic themselves, maintain a stranglehold on the plugins and themes directory, with Matt Mullenweg actively demanding that everything is released under the GPL License.
WordPress is a solid platform and certainly has become very flexible and rather extensive. With a little of WordPress knowledge, you can build platforms as big and customized as you want. No limits are set, even not the sky. Suffice to visit All Things D to admire how customizable the platform is. All I want here is a blog.
tweaking someones Windows laptop. God it’s painful to use, it’s really hard after 12 mths of Apple serendipity
Logging in to Windows already hurts after only 3 months of Apple and applications such as Twitterific, Coversutra and all the other bling for Mac. Let’s forget the super work orientated applications.
I went ahead and deleted the WordPress installation and installed Chyrp. Note that this was a thing which had to happen, already last year I had a period I played here with MT, not to forget my several rants around the mentality, spirit of the closed garden that Automattic is.
I am looking forward to play around with Chyrp and prepare a new design, with more color than before, I might stick to my Cutline rotating header images tho. For now tho, I am happy that I am not on WordPress anymore.
Now I must play sleep.
Fellow-Countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement somewhat in detail of a course to be pursued seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured…
— Abraham Lincoln in his 2nd inaugural address. Found on iPod touch.
