Eric Meyer recently posted an update to his CSS reset file, and that plus other commentaries I’ve been reading made me ask the obvious question: Why?
I know the logic behind it, I’m just not sure I buy into it wholeheartedly. Why add yet another file, yet another http request to the pages? I’m serious. I don’t see the reason.
Been processing some thoughts about CSS files and workstyles, and I think they’re about to bubble up and out. They’re still a bit inchoate (nice word, that; I learned it from a comic book back in my adolescence, so take that you literature snobs!) but I generally need to type them out in order to clarify them in my own mind, much less communicate them to anyone else.
But I think the pot has been simmering long enough.
Managed to clear most of the table cruft out of 1.5, only the content component to go. That one will be non-trivial but possible, nonetheless. I’ve been wrestling with a view other ideas along the way.
The first is a question born out of frustration: Why do I have to do this? The Joomla developers built in a way to remove tables from some of the pieces, and then created an override capability so someone like me can do the rest without having to hack the core. OK, but since they clearly know this is desirable (this is derived from the fact that most of the pieces have a simple argument on the load call to eliminate the tables) why haven’t they gone whole hog with it, and provided that capability built-in, rather that force me to provide it myself?
The next version of Joomla has hit RC2, and it’s still addicted to tables for design. How long will it be before they stop pretending they know what the end design is going to need, and just pass the content out to the view and let the view logic do what it’s supposed to do?
OK, I can understand retaining them for the time being in the component piece. While it’s extremely possible to do what they’re trying to do in there without the tables, it requires just a little effort, so if they don’t want to go to that effort and tag the 2-col items with different classes than the full-width items, I guess I can cut them some slack.
But Newsflash and Polls? Come on! A poll isn’t a table, it’s a list of choices! And a newsflash is simply a few paragraphs of text! Why do they want to keep inflicting tables on us there? It’d actually take less effort on their part to deliver those modules properly.
I’ve been waiting so long for this upgrade, and what I’m seeing is extremely disappointing.
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