[TYPO3-dev] Usability of the Columns view

[Tapio Markula]

Erik Svendsen wrote:
>> main templates. Using TemplaVoila you can't reuse mapping like I can
>> reuse content area templates.
> You can! Copy and paste XML

like anything else you can copy paste - but I mean using as such.


> Yes I know there are many people that use MTB, manual subparts or even 
> the TS only way. And thats one of the fantastic thing with TYPO3, the 
> same goal can be achived through different paths. But even with the same 
> approach as today for future TYPO3, a lot of thing can be obsolete

but not the way that MTB and TS only ways would be unusable. Reasonable
Backward compatibility is necessary. It is not necessary that existing
'cms' has as default but at least MTB should be available as alternative.

> I don't want to kill MTB and other techniques. But I want TYPO3 to adapt 
> new technologies when they are better, even if it makes it necessarry to 
> ditch anything of the old stuff.

but you are still near to kill well-working systems - even if
new are not even ready.

> achive that. And maybe we should hope for a better integration between 
> different approaches.

that is important - you could help me getting solution to get somewhat
automatic detection, which content wizard to use, if  both standard page
module and TemplaVoila is intalled.

> And I have to say, I like your attempt to make both backend and frontend 
> more userfriendly.

Ok. My goal is also make different apporoahes resemble more each others.

http://t3test.xetpoint.com/media/development/backendediting3.png

Both standard page module and TemplaVoila could look quite the same - if
you just want so!

> 
> WBR,
> Erik Svendsen
> www.linnearad.no
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