Re: [pLog-General] URGENT: template pool

[Oscar R. <os...@re...>]

On 4 Apr 2004, at 01:20, nexia wrote:

>
> --- nexia <nex...@ya...> wrote:
>
>>  users when selecting a new template will be asked:
>> 1- select the kind of skeleton you want
>> 2- from the selected skeleton style, you have now to
>> select one from the available designs
>>
>> that's all you tell me ?! ya.. .that's all.. for the
>> user's side.
>
> I have to add something for the coders side.  each
> template will now have a install file in its
> directory.  that file will contain only two or three
> variables related to the template:
> -name
> -skeleton type
> -origin/author
>
> the templates will have all their content in the same
> pattern everywhere:
>
> /templates/thisone/images/
> /templates/thisone/style.css
> /templates/thisone/print.css
> /templates/thisone/each_template_file.xhtml
> /templates/thisone/thisone.php

Sounds good.

>
> .. the php file will be the one having the variables.
> it's used only once, when uploading the template...
> the installer will extract the informations and
> integrate that template to the db.
>
> .. the xhtml files are the templates files... they are
> actually named .template, but it's irelevent.

Let's keep them as .template :)

>
> .. the style.css and print.css are the default css for
> this template. usually, the print.css is not different
> from one style to the other, but some designers would
> like to modify it relatively to their design..  that
> print.css stylesheet can be used with alternate
> systems like mobile phones etc.

Ok

>
> and for the ones asking "yeah, but the discrepancies
> ?!" ... there will be none.  XHTML 1.0 is strict HTML
> 4 with some tweaks.  all browsers are XHTML 1.0 after
> netscape 4.7 ... so if you use netscape 4.7, you are
> not able to navigate correctly on the web in the last
> 4 years, and can't access most of the webspaces
> anyway...

Well, being picky, I wouldn't call XHTML just a "tweaked version of 
HTML 4"!!! It's much more than that, or would you also call C++ a 
tweaked version of C? :)

But anyway, it was just a comment ;)

Oscar