[TYPO3-dev] Master Style 4 Typo3

[Johannes Reichardt]

Hey there!

Its late and my eyes are already burning after more than 12 hours 
non-stop computing but nevertheless i would like to share an idea that 
just came into my mind:

How about a "masterstyle" for Typo3?

Let me explain.

Right now every extension tends to introduce its own new styles - new 
backgrounds of tds, new font classes, new margins and paddings and so 
on. Even worse all that oldschool font tags in the template. We all know 
the process of going through myriads of configuration places like the 
constant editor, the default template, the stylesheet or even the 
extension code itself for example. And after that your style is stil not 
really "consistent" and you have a huge mess with tons of different 
stylesheets and oldschool tags.

That really sucks big time.

So how about a concept that gently invites extension developers to use 
predefined styles of the mastertemplate which comes along with a clean 
typo3 install? So we have by default styles for the body, tds, borders, 
errors etc.. and also for table lists, headers and so on. That way a lot 
of other things could be removed (like typoscript styling etc...) and 
you still would keep complete flexibility overall.

If you want to style your extension differently than just prepend 
"ext_key" to the style and you use a whole own extension style. Or you 
just add a few "styling exceptions" in the mastertemplate and off you go.

The point is to develop a template that is not too huge but still covers 
most cases in a usual typo3 installation. That template should be 
publicitly known and used as much as possible.

In the end it wouldn´t be just a dream but rather reality to install a 
typo3 page out of the box in 30 minutes and completly style it along 
with its extensions in another 30 minutes. And even better: You can 
change things quickly without looking up tons of places anymore!

Actually i´m afraid there is already a concept like this and just gets 
not used enough or i misunderstood it - if so please ignore this mail or 
explain it to me, otherwise i would be glad to get comments on this idea.

Clean styles are the future! (Says a square-eyed-man ;)

- Johannes