[TYPO3-dev] Usability of the Columns view

[Erik Svendsen]

Hello Tapio,

> I would sometimes test alternatives,
> but the problem is that TV and Web>page are incompatible.

Today they are, but I'm not sure they will be in the future. Mostly because 
TV is a module on top of the other. 

> I would be nice get some system to use the content element wizard for
> standard page module for some root-level site and
> another for TemplaVoila - then could test alternatives.
> Endeed don't have had any customer, who had needed TemplaVoila
> but there might be if some plugin is only available for TemplaVoila.

The use of TemplaVoila versus MTB is not so much a customer choice as a designer/developer 
choice. TV has some advantages, who I consider important. One is the FCE, 
who make it fast and easy to make elements specific for the customer without 
making a new extension. I'm using it a lot, instead of installing extensions 
who are "overkill". Another is fast implemeting of design from third party 
designers who make finished HTML-templates. Third is larger flexibility in 
the number of content elements on a page.

Also i find that most of my customers find the web>page TV module easier 
to understand than the normal web>page module.

And it also possible to get a decent frontend editing with TV (using your 
extension and some small modifications). But some flaws are there still. 


WBR,
Erik Svendsen
www.linnearad.no