[TYPO3-dev] Master Style 4 Typo3

[Kasper Skårhøj]

Hi Johannes,

This idea is also on my heart. I haven't looked in detail on what the  
Content Rendering Schemes are but for version 4.5 I hope that  
defining a long lasting CSS strategy that can be used globally for a  
site and affecting all extensions (complying with it) will be a major  
point.

- kasper


On Feb 21, 2006, at 2:20 , Johannes Reichardt wrote:

> 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
>
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- kasper

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