[TYPO3-hci] Less ways to do it...

[Rick - Futuros]

Ive use the spacer page type to split my FE menu's in groups on multiple 
occasions.
Using css you can create some white space between menu options. Very 
usefull.

Nonetheless i second that it might be strange that it is a *page* type.

But from a FE menu point of view i quess you can have 3 (4 if you see 
external an internal shortcuts seperately) different pages.
A page, a shortcut and a blank spot (spacer).

Sysfolders are BE only objects. The only reason it is a page type is 
probably because it acts like a tree branch in the same way a page does.

Rick

.I never used (even really understood) mountpoint to make a remark about 
them.


Michael Scharkow wrote:
> JoH wrote:
> 
>> Never used mount points, but spacers and recyclers are a must for 
>> sites with
>> more than just a few pages in the pagetree.
> 
> 
> Okay, then I ask a different question: Does it make sense to have 
> spacers and recyclers as *page types*? While technically they are pages, 
> they have no (useful) representation outside the BE.
> 
> In other words, would it not make more sense to have
> a) an explicit option to add a spacer to the page tree (which does not 
> have any properties except a title) that has no other function and 
> cannot contain records.
> b) add to the sysfolder a property "act as a recycler" which means that 
> (contrary to normal sysfolder) it can contain any record, but all 
> records are invisible to the rest of the system (so you can't abuse it 
> as a regular sysfolder).
> 
> This may sound a little odd to old-school users but would really make 
> the concept of pages as web-pages more consistent...
> 
> Greetings,
> Michael