Glad to hear it. Perhaps the various groups on g.d.o can coordinate other evaluations of Drupal 5. They are: http://groups.drupal.org/accessibility http://groups.drupal.org/search-engine-optimization http://groups.drupal.org/usability There doesn't appear to be an XHTML or standards compliance group, but there is http://groups.drupal.org/benchmarking-drupal Regarding Garland accessibility, the one issue I'm aware of is that form input text cannot be resized by Internet Explorer http://drupal.org/node/101629 - this a very important issue for people with visual disabilities, who will currently find it difficult to fill out forms on Drupal 5 sites using Garland. Though this is only one of many areas that would be included in a full accessibility evaluation. .ck Dries Buytaert wrote:
Hello,
I plan to do a performance comparison of Drupal 5.0 with Drupal 4.7 similar to what I did at:
http://buytaert.net/drupal-vs-joomla-performance http://buytaert.net/drupal-webserver-configurations-compared
Along with upgrading Drupal.org to Drupal 5 that should give us some more confidence about Drupal 5's performance.
Of course, there are other aspects of Drupal 5 that could do being evaluated. Two examples would be: XHTML compliance, accessibility and search engine optimalisation. For example, did anyone check whether Drupal 5 (Garland) is more or less accessible than Drupal 4.7 (Bluemarine)?
-- Dries Buytaert :: http://www.buytaert.net/