

<h3>In Joomla! 1.5, you'll notice: </h3>

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<li>Substantially improved usability, manageability, and scalability far beyond the original Mambo foundations</li><li>Expanded accessibility to support internationalisation, double-byte characters and right-to-left support for Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew languages among others</li>
<li>Extended integration of external applications through Web services and remote authentication such as the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)</li>
<li>Enhanced content delivery, template and presentation capabilities to support accessibility standards and content delivery to any destination</li>
<li>A more sustainable and flexible framework for Component and Extension developers</li>
<li>Backward compatibility with previous releases of Components, Templates, Modules, and other Extensions</li>
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