[TYPO3-dev] Usability of the Columns view

[Tapio Markula]

Erik Svendsen wrote:

> 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.

yes if you need different functionality, not if you just need different 
layout kb_conttable makes the latter possible and there are several 
plugins, which makes it possible for the content type 'text'.
It is for user *much easier* to change content element type
from 'Text' to some alternatives than change whole template using 'Edit 
page properties'

> lot, instead of installing extensions who are "overkill". Another is 
> fast implemeting of design from third party designers who make finished 
> HTML-templates. 

IMO not a big advance because creating content erea templates is easy

 >Third is larger flexibility in the number of content

not a big advantage

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

Yes if you think the default Web > Page module. It is messy. I just made 
it clearer - and in fact easier to use thatn TV module because of 
copy,cut and paste icons + AJAX-based moving content elements from one 
content area to other. Changed Web > Page module is certainly better 
than default TV module but concernig default interfaces you are right.
>
> And it also possible to get a decent frontend editing with TV 

TV has very bad frontend editing - at least TV 0.4 work really awfull 
bad way - bad frontend was the main reason, why I rejected TV.
Even using my modifications it far from the level of using Web > Page 
module. If I some day will use TV for my customers it must have 
remarkable better frontend editing.