I've read your blog post and am particularly interested in trying to test this as soon it is working as intended. Step #1 is to run the scripts and to do some performance benchmark. Have you done any experiments yet? When can we expect to be able to play with this? :-) Not really, haven't had time yet. Will do over the weekend. To test there is a need for a small change in theme.inc, and that's all.
Thanks for taking a lead in this, Vlado! Much appreciated. Well, Adrian is the one who's pushing :)
As a sidenote - documentation. Is anyone interested in helping me prepare a theming reference. The reference from the apis is not good for designers. Ultimately I would like to be able to automatically produce the html snippets, for each theme function, regardless of what is the template engine. My plan is to: 1. catalogue all available theme_ functions in core (for all practical purposes this is done, might need tweaking, but the code is there) 2. go through the theme_ functions and construct dummy(lorem ipsum) style calls to extract a formatted html. 3. look into producing a drupaldocs like description. This suggestion is closely related to testing as well. How would you approach it? Any ideas? Cheers, Vlado