[Typo3-dev] TYPO3 version 4.0.0?

[Martin T. Kutschker]

Patrick Gaumond wrote:
> After reading the whole thread here's my point of view:
> 
> As 3.6 RC2 is not really a RC if you follow the logic that says that RC
> should be feature frozen, maybe we can skip an "official" 3.6 and go
> directly to 4.0 considering those features (nearly in marketing/buzzwords
> value order):
> 
> XHTML

Yes.

> Accessibility

What are the features (besides the alt attribute)?

I don't see any, and Robert doesn't even want alt attributes for image 
w/text conetnt elements.

> UTF-8

If you don't mind some glitches ;-)

> New RTE (I know the magic behind but the marketing result is RTE will be
> IE-independant! )

Yeah! Did anyone find some time to actually implement a Midas-based RTE. 
Or those funky flash thingies some were raving about?

> DBAL

Well, there is a foundation. Nothing there for end users now!

> Flexforms

Cool, but for developers only.

> CSS Style content

Yes.

> Tons of small and big enhancements

Yes (but that should be in every release)

> Updated documentation

Yes (but that should be in every release)

> Code cleaning

Nice, but should I care as end users.

So without real DBAL, meaningful accessability and complete UTF-8 
support I would not make it a 4.0.

> We should not cancel 3.6 (looks bad) we just have to say loud and strong
> that " The newest version of TYPO3, the 4.0 release, include blabla..."

Yes but it's been anounced for ages. I have a very bad feel for projects 
that increase the major release number just like this.

> My 0.12 Euro

I'll stick to the usual 2¢ ;-)
Masi