[MTOS-dev] proposal: page layout blog setting and accompanyingtemplate tags.

[Anil Dash]

Not to speak for Bud, but I remember distinctly in MT circa v1 and v2, one of the big benefits was that templates were essentially "the HTML you already know how to do, plus a couple of tags". It's a model that makes sense to those of us who are more markup folks than rwal coders, and is a nice complement to the efficiency of using smart includes and variables as we do in MT4.

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From: mtos-dev-bounces at sixapart.com <mtos-dev-bounces at sixapart.com>
To: Bud Gibson <fpgibson at gmail.com>
Cc: Movable Type Open Source Developers <mtos-dev at sixapart.com>
Sent: Fri Jan 25 01:09:30 2008
Subject: Re: [MTOS-dev] proposal: page layout blog setting and accompanyingtemplate tags.

On Jan 24, 2008, at 7:48 PM, Bud Gibson wrote:
> What does this menu do exactly?  Does it set the setting used by  
> stylecatcher?  In that case, it makes sense as a UI element.

This menu sets the value of a variable that is output as a class on  
the body html tag. The position and order of the #alpha, #beta, and  
#gamma div containers are arranged via css that hooks into this  
class. (See MT_DIR/mt-static/themes-base/blog.css ...or soon to be  
MT_DIR/mt-static/themes-base/layout.css as the style sheets are  
separated)

> BTW, my complaint with the templates is not so much that they're  
> scary but that they are too hard to figure out.  They're too unlike  
> web pages.

Bud, can you explain/expand upon what you mean by "too unline web  
pages"?

_beau





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