Martin Dougiamas

It's in contrib: http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=1773

The missing flags is a (bug) someone can fix if they want to.

With filters we have all kinds of other embedded things now too, such as Skype icons. (hi) (dance) (toivo)

This is great stuff from Sam and the OU (dance)

For "completeness" ;-) there are also some plans for progress tracking at the larger level of courses and outcomes across the whole site.

http://docs.moodle.org/en/Development:Progress_tracking

Input is very welcome on this specification as the coding has not got very far yet.

In addition, I just noticed this new progress block:

http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=1659

Minor correction, The Moodle 2.0 requirement was recently increased to 5.2.4 due to some serious bugs in 5.2.3.

Yes you can use mod_gzip in Apache with great results.

It does create a little extra CPU load but if you can support that then do it!

I don't recommend PHP compression, that would require modification to Moodle itself.