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

[Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]]

REMIDER #1. Pretty neat and important (as in "long awaited") new feature
for the frontend rendering of text with image. Please consider taking a
look at it. ;)

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
>