Sidebar is a bad name - it encourages the perpetuation of the stupid 3 column CMS paradigm, by making people think of block regions as "side
+1 on regions instead of "sidebars".
+1.
Drupal uses the 3 column paradigm. As such, 'sidebar' is a lot less confusing. How about calling it 'column' which seems to have a bit of
I still like region better. The downside of "column" is that we'd never be able to happily and semantically do "wide" columns, like a header or footer (what the hell is a "header column"?). Likewise, it's difficult to imagine a column within a column, or a sidebar within a sidebar, but quite easy to imagine a region within a region. "Sidebar" may be less confusing in the short run, but naming parts of Drupal solely per the paradigm (ie. renaming "taxonomy" "categories", which still bums me out) is bad. Remember: the greatest honor of a paradigm is to be broken. -- Morbus Iff ( dare you overpower my stench of eeeevil? ) Technical: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/779 Culture: http://www.disobey.com/ and http://www.gamegrene.com/ icq: 2927491 / aim: akaMorbus / yahoo: morbus_iff / jabber.org: morbus