[TYPO3-core] RFC #11107: Provide more flexible rendering for "text with image"

[Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]]

Hi,

thanks for the reviews and tests. Commited to trunk (rev. 5540).

I renamed "wantsGlobalCaption" to "renderGlobalCaption", as this boolean
indicates if the processor decided to render one single global caption
(depends on configuration but also on setup, e.g. if there is only "one
image").

Even if css_styled_content isn't documented yet, I added the info to the
pending-docs page:

http://wiki.typo3.org/Pending_Documentation#css_styled_content

so that it can be included as soon as the CSC documentation gets updated.

Cheers,
Ernesto



Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] wrote: on 16.05.2009 18:49:
> Hi,
> 
> this is a SVN patch request.
> 
> Type: feature
> 
> Branches: trunk
> 
> BT reference: http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=11107
> 
> Problem:
> Since 4.0 we have an "accessible" rendering for Text with image, which
> has replaced the "table-based" rendering when css_styled_content is
> installed. This works pretty well, but there have been some criticisms:
> 
> 1) the overhead of the "complex" dl/dt/dd structure if you only want a
> single image with no caption
> 
> 2) the bug 3363, which is caused by a situation that is not being handled
> 
> 3) the "unlogical" default rendering of a "dl" list even if the images
> have no captions (it should be a "ul" in that case).
> 
> To cope with those and similar issues that might have appeared for
> people in those last years, I have created a mechanism to render_textpic
> which can now via TypoScript configuration define special rendering for
> those "edge cases".
> 
> As a "proof-of-concept" and as a new default for 4.3 I would love to
> include typoscript to resolve the 3 issues mentioned above for a
> standard installation. It won't affect installations that use "custom"
> typoscript. And there is always the "4.2" template that works like it
> does now.
> 
> The attached patch implements this feature.
> 
> 
> How to test:
> To test, just create a sample page with some example elements of the
> type "text with image". Try out:
> 
> - 4 images to the left of some text in two columns
> - add some captions to them
> - a single image with no caption
> - single image with caption
> 
> Then try out other global settings:
> 
> Set this constant (overwriting the default):
> styles.content.imgtext.imageTextSplit = 0
> 
> Try out "no rows" checkbox for your elements. Also try out:
> styles.content.imgtext.separateRows = 0
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Ernesto
>