Jeremy Esland has just added a slew (yes, slew is a real word...look it up) of new features to the Rainbow core and/or documentation. They include:
- A much improved portal alias retriever: you can now host 'sub-domains' on the same Rainbow installation as 'regular' sites...so support.example.com and sales.example.com can exist happily alongside example.com, example.co.uk, and www.example.com (even when the latter three point to the same site). It seems simple, but this is a huge step forward, IMHO.
- A new smarterror handler that provides much better interface for the end user when a page doesn't load (404, 403, 500 errors, for example).
- Terrific CSS documentation to support the Zen layout framework...though it also serves as a pretty good tutorial for those with only a basic understanding of the power of CSS.
- MagicUrls: These will allow a site admin to avoid complicated URLs, simplifying targets from (for example) www.example.com/site/2271/default.aspx to www.example.com/articles. Much better for the typical human user, eh?
- Much improved behavior for search engine optimization...amond other things, this should prevent spiders from indexing error pages!
All this (and more) is in the Dev build right now...watch for it in a (hopefully near) future release!