[TYPO3-hci] TYPO3 4.2 blog entry

[Franz Koch]

Hi Dmitry,
>> It just came into my mind when I read your posts. How about a option 
>> to change the way "tabs"/fieldgroups get rendered?
> 
> Well... I have different thing in my mind. I would go for a complete 
> rethinking the concept of BE and complete redesign of elements. It is 
> not natural way to save "Insert text" or "Insert text with image" and to 
> "Specify access options" to it. This is technical thinking, not 
> user-oriented thinking. I would prefer "Add content" with "Drop image 
> where you want" and "Show this part from ... to ...".
> 
> I think out biggest problem is that we all try to improve existing 
> thing, while it needs to be ~replaced~.

You're right - it's all just workarounds, trying to deal with currently 
available approaches. Of course a completely new concept would be best, 
but wasn't it you, who said that this would take too much time and thus 
might never be done?
Question is - is it worth doing such a major work for 4.x or start with 
it for 5.0? Second question would be - can the really old wholy cow of 
backwards compatibility finally get replaced by a shiny new calf that 
only inherited the best genes - at least for the backend.

-- 
kind regards,
Franz Koch