Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Template system (Smarty)

[Karsten D. <k.d...@fi...>]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 08:11:52PM +0200, Frits Jensen wrote:

> I totally disagree, as having your themes this way would make using good
> third-party tools for editing CSS very complex, and the whole structure m=
ore
> complex from a designers point of view. One directory containing one theme
> makes sense for the user, increases ease of use, and is open for the futu=
re
> expansions. Pardon my tone =3D)

You are making a point here. Third-Party CSS editors would get disturbed by
placeholders in the CSS tenplate file. Hmmm....

> CSS'ing more versatile. Also there should be a referrer to print and aural
> versus monitor in the coding - I would like my pages to print nicely. A
> theme should consist of at least both one for monitor, and one for print,=
 to
> be a complete theme.

That got my attention: Is there _any_ browser available, that _really_
supports _any_ of the possibilities to format for printing? Last time I
looked at that issue, I was all too disappointed!

Or are you referring to this with a look in the future?

But of course you are right. Maybe we should just do it anyway, and see the
browser makers implement it, just to satisfy the gazillion phpWebSite
users... :-)

> There should be a certain logic to the tagging, so that we do not end up
> using 5 trillion individually named tags, one for each plugin, option and
> 'little thing i just coded'. Limit is the keyword. Without having thought=
 it
> all the way through, I would say that it would be plenty with 5 areas of
> tagging. It could be something like:
>=20
> leftbox.h1 =3D...
> rightbox.h1 =3D...
> article.h1 =3D...
> special_big.h1 =3D...
> special_small.h1 =3D...
> top_bar.h1 =3D...
> [...]
> and so on...

Ok, I got that... Though you probably mean leftbox.h1 {...}

> leftbox_menu_padding.left =3D...
> leftbox_menu_padding.right =3D...
> leftbox_menu_padding.bottom =3D...
> leftbox_menu_padding.top =3D...
> leftbox_menu_padding.left =3D...
>=20
> rightbox_menu_padding.left =3D...
> rightbox_menu_padding.right =3D...
>=20
> and so on...

What are those for? Or do you mean leftbox_menu { padding-left: ...
padding-right:... } ?!?

> If I make any sense to anyone, I would take on the task of creating a
> _complete_ set of such names, so that that part of the project was finito
> and done with.=20

Go ahead! Write something up and submit it to the list for discussion. Any
help is good help :-)

Regards,
Karsten
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