Martin Dougiamas

Some work has been done recently to make Moodle be a little smarter about coping with odd collations MDL-34271 but as Howard said, best to just make sure everything is utf8_unicode_ci as recommended in the install docs.

Moodle 1.9 had long term support.

2.x also has long term support - we keep releasing new .x releases for Moodle 2. We spend a LOT of time making sure we don't break things (even 3rd party things) in the 2.x upgrades.

But if we are going to have one 2.x release that we support for a long time with definitely zero new features then please don't get stuck on 2.2. At least get onto 2.3 or 2.4. To me we are finally getting to where 2.0 was supposed to be (in my mind).

Then we can stop developing 2.x and start working on 3.x.

Note that iOS6 (which will be released within weeks) DOES allow you to upload photos and videos directly into upload forms on Moodle, so make sure you upgrade to that!

I've tried it on a developer version of iOS6 and it's pretty sweet.

Stuart, what you are talking about are Moodle Themes (and especially the MyMobile theme added in Moodle 2.2), which are a completely separate project (see the Themes forum).

The confusion is perhaps natural since Essex seem to be still on Moodle 1.9 and you have perhaps not used either of these yet.

To clarify things:

1. The app uses web services to implement specific bits of functionality that are difficult, impossible or undesirable to do in a web browser.  A key one being notifications, as Juan pointed out.
2. The themes are being improved to make Moodle look and work better in a mobile web browser, for those times when you do have a live connection to your Moodle site.
3. The app also includes a web browser and so #2 actually shows up in #1 as well.
4. It should be possible to theme (brand) the app itself so it matches the site you are using.

This discussion is about #1 but we will be working on all of the above.

I'm posting this right now from a browser on a mobile device. Moodle works OK already like this. The code you are looking at is an iPhone app and completely different.