I doubt it is 1), nor do I think 2) is very likely, though I lack any proof for that. Op vrijdag 18 augustus 2006 08:47, schreef Dries Buytaert:
3. The block region feature does match people's expectations/need but is simply too hard to use. This could be due to a number of things: (i) poor UI design, (ii) poor documentation, (iii) lack of examples, etc.
Recently I started a new base theme, which I already used on two sites sucessfully. I think a third site will prove it to be release ready, and I'll give it a 4.7 brach. The whole idea is: LOADS of regions. That theme has already 7 regions. Regions that are not called "top", "left" or "right", but have proper semantic names such as "tools", "branding" etc. I really hope this is a start for a second generation of (CSS) themes that break out of the threecol HTML, and get us into the era of semantic 3col layouts (the difference is only semantic)[1]. For proper semantics one needs loads of regions. * examples: Indeed there are hardly any. Only examples how to build complex homepages. Let us get some good ones out there! themes.drupal.org suffers from the "bug" in core that only themes with left and right regions can be presented there in the first place. Anyone whom is creative and added a "post content region" but no left or right, can not present its theme there. This needs a solution, though I don't know any. * poor UI design: I doubt it. We have much poorer designed features. If people need it, theyll get around usability thingies. * documentation: again, the only i can find is how to make nicer frontpages. This is in fact more an abuse of regions then a proper use! :) Does anyone have anything working? I want to finish up my docs[2] on using regions and nicer HTML in the next weeks, but have been overwhelmed (again). Maybe we can list more complete and other manuals? Bèr [1] http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/archives/whats_in_a_name_pt2.html [2] http://webschuur.com/node/635