[TYPO3-dev] Developing Standards - CSS

[Jigal van Hemert]

Hi,

Georg Ringer wrote:
> Tomas Norre Mikkelsen schrieb:
>> When i develop / setup TYPO3 websites, 30-40% of my time is for adapt
>> css-styling, such the plugin match the generel design template.
> I do 80% coding new extensions because I can't use existing ones

This only means that extensions are not flexible regarding styling, etc.

If extension programmers would stick to a few basic rules:
- use a flexible HTML template
- do not generate HTML in the PHP code
- use stdWrap on every data field
- include links to CSS and JS in the HTML template (see Dmitry's book 
for code to include those parts in the page)

then you would only need to change the template of an extension (and 
possibly a bit TS to format the data) to display things exactly like you 
want them displayed.

Adding the ability to create custom markers in TypoScript (quite simple 
too) would add a bit extra flexibility.

Regards,
--
Jigal van Hemert.