One major criticism I have of Joomla 1.0x is that you have to use a 3rd party component to enable and control semantic URLs for your website.

The native Search Engine Friendly URLs that Joomla can produce are pretty good mind you - they're short, follow your section/category structure and are read well by Google.  That's great but its often still necessary to tell someone a URL that they can remember etc - personally, I've been using OpenSEF for quite some time on a number of sites.

I  must say, OpenSEF's pretty good - and there are arguably better packages available these days but I'm still annoyed at how we have to turn SEF on in Joomla *and* install some extra program to get nice clean human-readable URLs, which might break with funky characters in the article titles etc (the reason why JoomlaFeed has gone back to using plain old SEF URLs) - something which happens often when you republish content from external sources.

Anyway - I'm really excited for a big change in this area: Joomla 1.5 is getting far more accessible and Jinx has recently spent 6 weeks overhauling the whole URL writing architecture of the CMS - resulting in lovely structures like this:

http://localhost/joomla15/the-news/joomla-overview/faq.html

Ahhhhhhh  - yes folks, its the death of Item IDs!

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written by Zorro, March 20, 2007

Yes it's the death of ItemIDs in the URL but internally I guess they'll be with us for quite some more time, with all the problems they are known to cause. My happiness is kind of partial.

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