I relented and added support for threaded comments to Simplish for the upcoming WordPress 2.7. I have some initial code and a demo up at labs.utopian.net. So now we load a JavaScript — but only when the threaded comments setting is true, and even then only on single post views.

I’m not sure about supporting in Simplish the eventual threaded comments in WordPress ≥ 2.7. The threads feature is fine enough, but so is a simple theme that doesn’t load any JavaScript.

Post edited to correct Ms. Wells’ title....

I’ll push the what-URL meta-drivel down the atom feed with a quick update on some work we’re doing around here:...

WordPress uses a wad of apache rewrite rules to implement “pretty” URL permalinks, a synthetic hierarchical path interface to the blog. This set of near-equivalents for lighttpd url.rewrite makes WordPress URLs work as discernible paths like tag/lighttpd/, rather than revealing the underlying numerical arguments to index.php....