[TYPO3-dev] Moving the topic of the discussion a little bit -- Based of thread "Change roadmap..."

[Thomas Murphy]

Hi Dimitry,

(please don't use HTML-Format for your messages if possible, it eats up 
my reader if I want to reply to you)

Dmitry Dulepov wrote:
 > Dimitri Tarassenko wrote:
 >
 >>Check out Smarty, seriously.
 >
 >
 > I will ask our designer to learn programming. He will be very
 > happy....... Hope, he will not leave us...

If your designer does the HTML Templates he is programming already.
And doing proper HTML & CSS is a lot more difficult then learning basic 
smarty syntax like {$mytext|upper}.

Your designer will _LOVE_ this freedom he gains, e.g. alternating 
layouts with loops and so on.

If he is just a designer, you will need someone coding the templates anyway.

And for the Smarty/PHP templateing comparison: The good thig about 
Smarty is it wonderful chaching mechanism, where it compiles the 
templates into pure php -> so it is as fast as PHP, once cached.

I would love to see Smarty integrated in TYPO3 - if not, I would still 
like to have freedom of choice which template engine to use - means: It 
would be nice to have a modular templating API which is able to serve 
templates with different enignes.

bye,
Thomas