[TYPO3-hci] TYPO3 4.2 blog entry

[Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]]

Niels Fröhling wrote:
> 
>> [...] But no one will change TYPO3 Backend so much. It requires huge 
>> development and no one will sponsor it. I would say it will take at 
>> least half a year full time to make a completely new Backend, which 
>> keeps all TYPO3 power but makes it in a simple friendly and effective 
>> way.
>>   
> Yes, 184 days to come up with a document which is a compromise, pleasing 
> all end every resisting voice, and 1 day to detect, he just has to 
> upgrade the version number of t3skin.
> 
> The problem is old and everywhere, the change does not come because it's 
> too much, it's because of conservatism ("we can't make that change 
> there?", "yes", "why?", "it breaks typo3 in IE <6").

Why don't you do it then if it is easy? :)

I guess you didn't come to t3dd08, where some radical ideas were proposed but estinates is half a year of dedicated work.

I afraid you simply don't know TYPO3 code when you wrote the phrase above.

> Obviously it is 
> nessessary to search for a different GUI-renderer instead of a different 
> GUI-backend. Then GUI is no thing of core-developers anymore, I can have 
> my own GUI-renderer (and I don't need to care about IE at all) exactly 
> because I don't need to cover every case since typo3's existence (50+ 
> Browsers?, 25+ OSs?), then there are poping up 20 other and the problem 
> of "everybody's freezed" doesn't exist anymore.

Well, may be you don't but others have to. So use your BE, no problem at all. But big players cannot have a BE for one browser only.

> Just develop a layouter and a widget.set (awt/swing-style, not the API 
> or the stupid stuff, the concept) and lean back. I once programmed a 
> medium Intranet, after three days I startet a js/php-widget library. And 
> it's also relative incomplicated work, because without actually changing 
> the functionality of the backend, it all still looks the same, if only 
> 35 of the 56 tables are really rendered by the new system is invisible.

Great! Develop it for TYPO3! ;)

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Dmitry Dulepov
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