[Typo3-dev] TYPO3 complexity in general

[Johannes Reichardt]

Hi Ingmar,

> Of course Kasper has great capabilities of managing complexity, but as 
> far as new web trends are concerned Kasper is rather conservative (in 
> a good sense) and only uses techniques that provide actual value.
> For example see the database abstraction debate.
> Many considered it just "cool" and "must have", but Kasper has 
> questined the real advantage of it, and was critical about whether 
> that'd complicate things more than necessary.

Everything Kasper created has value - and thats the funny thing about 
it, to my opionion its some kind of "value inflation" (like with money), 
so that all these concepts and ways tend to confuse, of even worse, tend 
to give me a feeling like "i´m missing something but i don´t know what". 
on the other hand Murphy may be right as he stated that some big things 
are still unfinished and might be able to replace some older concepts 
completly - i don´t have enough knowledge on these things.

- Johannes

>
>> Let me take one example. The Mininews extension puts some styles on 
>> every single page which is completly unnecessary - but there is still 
>> no "general" way of applying different .js or .css src to the header 
>> of pages without making template extensions etc...
>
>
> If you set the following line in TS, all CSS is put into an external 
> file, just perfect, if you ask me.
> config.inlineStyle2TempFile = 1
> http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/doc_core_tsref/quot_CONFIG_quot/ 
>
>
> However, I think I got your point.
> According to you, Typo3 does too many things you actually don't need 
> and don't want and some things confuse more than help.
>
> That may be right in some cases, these cases have to be spotted and 
> removed/solved.
>
> I suggest you just take the initiative to create a page on the Typo3 
> wiki (everyone can do that without registration, 
> http://wiki.typo3.org) on which you list all the things that should, 
> according to you, be removed, or made easier.
>
> cheers,
> Ingmar
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