[TYPO3-hci] typoscript issues

[Sudara Williams]

I also feel that an editor makes a lot of difference.

Typoscript itself has a sloppy "vibe". It's syntax is inconsistent  
and the default way to create with it is to type in a little textarea  
in the BE - this promotes people not learning it, high error rate,  
and low understandability. People look at it and say "why is it  
sometimes camelCase and sometimesnot and sometimesObscureAsHell ?

Using an editor can save headaches - highlighting confirms that you  
have typed correctly, you are more tempted to format the code nicely,  
etc.

Having nice syntax highlighting does not mean we should keep the  
language sloppy and not care about consistency.

As I mentioned before - making the core consistent encourages  
extension authors to be consistent and saves headaches for people  
learning. Though the preview of the 5.0 *framework* may be ready  
later this year, we'll be using 4.x for the next few years.

It would be nice to be honest - even a good knife needs sharpening.

Sudara


On May 8, 2007, at 1:30 AM, JoH asenau wrote:

>>> So I maybe it would be wiser to have a spellchecker or kind of
>>> autocorrection available to avoid problems with aTagParams  
>>> instead of
>>> ATagParams. If you don't have to take care of correct spelling, the
>>> need for consistency will be much lower.
>> This solution is afaik not possible at the moment because there's no
>> real TS editor avaiable for T3.
>
> And this is why we should try to create one instead of changin  
> TypoScript
> itself.
> Currently we got this one:
> http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/jeditvfs/1.0.3/
>
> So maybe this is something to start with.
>
> Joey
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