A couple of weeks ago the BlogEngine team announced the release of version 1.5 RC (Release Candidate). This motivated me to do a number of things
- Download and install run 1.5 RC locally to see what has changed.
- Document the changes I have made to this site, extension installations, page modifications etc.
- Install these modifications to 1.5 RC to check their compatability in preparation for a future upgrade to 1.5 when the final version is released.
- Finally the main reason for playing with this newest release was to test the themes and extensions I have written that you have downloaded. At the moment that is only the Greenway theme and Randomquote extension.
I am glad to report that RandomQuote version 1.2 still works fine and is compatible with 1.5 RC. Hopefully nothing will change between the RC and Final versions to change that.
Unfortunately there does seem to be a little bug, or should I call it a special feature, in the Greenway theme on some browsers. The theme displays as expected in IE7
The calendar and RandomQuote extension are nicely positioned under the menu bar.
Now compare that with how it looks in FireFox 3.0.9
You can clearly see the difference in the position of the calendar and RandomQuote extension. I don't believe this is a direct affect of version 1.5, this bug has probably always been there. Due to its nature I am not going to urgently look into fixing it, sorry guys, personal commitments prevent me from spending the necessary time on it. I know what you are thinking, you can spend time writing about it so why not spend some of that time fixing it. Fair argument I suppose. If any of you have found a way to resolve the issue feel free to get in touch.
For more information regarding 1.5 see the announcement on the official BlogEngine site
As usual you can get all the up to date downloads from the downloads page.