[TYPO3-hci] The Constant Triptichon

[Quentin Dewhurst]

Its not front end editing I was alluding to - more the setting up and 
configuration of the templates and content areas themselves.  If the backend 
truly reflected the front end i probably wouldnt get comments from users of 
websites i have built in typo3 like - "how come the stuff that goes in the 
footer has to be put in the 'border' area."

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alex Heizer" <alex at tekdevelopment.com>
To: "TYPO3 human computer interaction team" 
<typo3-team-hci at lists.netfielders.de>
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: [TYPO3-hci] The Constant Triptichon


> Quentin Dewhurst wrote:
>>
>> Why not have the backend truly reflect the front end though?
> My question would be: why would anyone ever want this? You already have
> the FE editing.
>> - this doesnt
>> have to be uber difficult or tricky to configure via the backend either -
>> the front end template could be interpreted via the backend 
>> automatically,
>> displaying a visual representation to the user.
>>
> So how would you propose, with this method, that documentation be
> created? People already complain about TYPO3's documentation, having a
> nonstandard editing interface would make it impossible to create
> documentation for anything other than "theoretical" editing or on a
> site-by-site basis. Removing a standard "every installation gets this
> interface" interface in place of one that changes with every site would
> mean the best we could ever hope for out of documentation would be
> sketchy details about how "this element may be here, or there, please
> consult your developer for more specifics regarding your site." All of a
> sudden you take the burden of documentation off the community and place
> it squarely on each individual developer for even basic editing tasks
> such as "Create a new content element". Even adding TV created new
> standardization issues with documenting TYPO3 as a system, and placed a
> lot of the work on each site developer.
>
> Don't get me wrong, I think the ideas are cool, and the technology is
> cool. I loved it when Netscape started letting you customize your own
> portal pages with drag and drop years ago. But for making the system
> usable and supportable for tens of thousands of end-users, all of which
> need to be trained at some time and many of whom only have basic
> computer skills, having a standard interface for all means usability.
> Having tens of thousands of custom one-off interfaces introduces so many
> supportability and maintainability issues that it's no wonder Microsoft
> may change the look of Windows, or refine some features, or add new
> features, but since 1995 the interface hasn't changed at all and they
> don't seem to be suffering from a lack of adoption.
>
> Cheers,
> Alex
>
>> Cheers, Quentin.
>>
>
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