<font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">one of the big things that has frustrated me with Drupal 7, is that the custom menu system is broken.</font></font><div><font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br>
</font></font></div><div><font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">By this, I mean that if you build/use a custom menu (anything other than the pre-defined menus of Primary/Secondary etc), then menus will not work as expected. The problem is that Drupal 7 does not assign the correct/necessary "active-trail" attribute to custom menu items, and therefore child items will not expand as you click through a menu.</font></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">IE: If you have a menu with parent items, you expect to be able to click on those parent items and have the children expand/display. This doesn't happen. It only happens for the menus that are part of a base install.</font></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">This is just one example, but a pretty major reason why Drupal 7 is not ready for prime-time. Sure, you could install a patch, or one of the few modules that fix or override this bug, but why should you have to install a module to do something that should work in the core? I'm not asking for new functionality, just make it work the same way as it did in Drupal 6.</font></font></div>
<div><font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font size="2"><font face="trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I'm sure there are other examples of things that were ignored or downgraded in the rush to launch Drupal 7 in January, but this is the main one that is preventing me from rolling out any new Drupal sites. When the bugs are fixed that make the core functionality of Drupal 6 work in Drupal 7, then I'll be moving quickly to D7....because other than these bugs, it really is a very nice improvement, which i am very thankful for.<br clear="all">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Michael Prasuhn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@mikeyp.net">mike@mikeyp.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
And almost everyone of those and more is present in Drupal 6. This is a<br>
terrible metric to measure Drupal 7's readiness for site building. There<br>
has been an increased tendency during the Drupal 7 cycle to fix bugs<br>
that have been in Drupal for many versions (delete/cancel user account<br>
anyone?) and we now have a testing framework (which is it's own source<br>
of bugs at times, even though those don't affect site builders).<br>
<br>
I have yet to run into any issues at all with Drupal core while building<br>
sites on Drupal 7 and I'd say 95% of the contrib modules that I've been<br>
using are flawless as well.<br>
<br>
What experiences have you run into that make you believe that Drupal 7<br>
is not ready for site building?<br>
<br>
-Mike<br>
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Neil Coghlan wrote:<br>
> ultimately, D7 will be the good choice but not till spring at least...5<br>
> criticals and 200+ majors (many of which would have been critical under<br>
> old system) tells you it isn't ready (and, maybe controversially, I<br>
> don't think it was launch ready in Jan either)<br>
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