[TYPO3-ect] Official voting for Extension Award 2005

[Elmar Hinz]

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Hi,

I will give a first voting now. I still haven't tested the last 3 extensions,
cause my daily work is extension programming not configurations. I may alter my
position after testing.

> 
> [1] chc_forum: CHC Forum proposed by Michelle Heizer
> [2] cron_cssstyledimgtext: CSS styled IMGTEXT proposed by Hauke Haller
> [2] rtehtmlarea: htmlArea RTE proposed by by Ernesto Bashny
> 
> [2] dam: Media (DAM) proposed by by Stefan Geith
> [2] timtab: TIMTAB Weblog proposed by Thomas Hempel
> [1] timtaw: TimTaw proposed by Frank Holzinger
> 

Reasons:

Documentation: All extensions have documentation. There could be more
Documentation for DAM and TimTaw.


chc_forum:

I follow Michelles argumentation, and don't reapeat all the positive reasons. If
you do projectes on the community area having a forum is very important. CHC
forum is the best so far.

Although the documentation tells that other people than Zach Davis, Lucas
Thurston and Janno Schouwenburg have added code, it wasn't realy documented who
has done what. So some Developers will be missing on
http://wiki.typo3.org/index.php/Extension_of_the_Year.

On my last review it didn't have hierarchical threads. Instead it uses the term
thread in a misleading way. In practice we couldn't bring it to the customer
because of the absence of real threads. This can lead a community orientated
customer to decide for another System than TYPO3. With real threads I would give
2 points.

As long as there are no threads I think it likely that other develpers will work
on competing forums. That could lead to a chaotic situation like that on the
field of calendars.


cron_cssstyledimgtext:

I alread gave most important reasons for this. cron_cssstyledimgtext works on a
very central area. I worked myself on the improvement of css_styled_imagetext
and can tell that it isn't easy to find really good solutions. Ernesto has done
a clear analyse, and brought results into a usable product.

We can build clean accessible sourcecode with it. I think the work of Ernesto
will directly cause TYPO3 winning a lot of tenders in 2006 and so will be of
high economical importance. It would have deserved 3 points, but points are
limited.



rtehtmlarea:

a) RTEHtmlArea makes it possible to leave the world of proprietary Software
completly be replacing RTE that only worked in I.E.

b) RTEs make it possible for users to work with technics they are used from
office software like Openoffice or Word. With the right configuration text can
be directly copied and pasted between office software and TYPO3.

c) Documentation clearly names all contributors. With 11 people it is the record.

d) Joey is complaining of "feature packed" RTE and propagates the puristic way.
Well, I might see some discrepancy between this statement and the newsreader he
using to access this list. We need to make it easy for the editor. He should be
able to work as intuitive as possible, without a lot of learning for different
content elements.

Without configuration RTEHtmlArea rather produces rubbisch than sourcecode. But
it is possible to configure it in a way that you can do pure semantic tagging
with it, so that the result is very clean, accessible and stylable be CSS.

I wrote a chapter in the Galileo Handbook how to do this. It isn't easy and  is
complicated for the normal user. Configuration has to be done in different
places. I need to read my own chapter again each time I need to configure
RTEHtmlArea. If the semantic configuration would be the default configuration I
would give 3 points.


Regards

Elmar



































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