This would be brilliant. To make it useful in the unreal world of the Internet today, unfortunately we'd have to also add the criteria: 4. IE bulletproof [which unfortunately may be incompatible with 1. below ...]. Some days, I really wish my clients would just tell all the world's IE users to get lost, but it's just not happenning. - Alan On 7/9/06, Frando (Franz Heinzmann) <frando@xcite-online.de> wrote:
What about having both in one theme?
My suggestion for a new standard core theme would be to have a base html theme that's as universally valid as possible. Then, this html theme will be put into a standard - 3column - layout by layout.css. Both the HTML and the CSS can be used by designers as a starting point. Then, we should have a second CSS file, style.css, that does all the styling, color, background image, .. stuff to make our new default theme look drupalish-unique and maybe even a little fancy (if that's wanted).
In other words:
1. "Perfect" HTML scaffold, no tables, content structure over design, can be used as a starting point by designers (and probably will nearly always be used) 2. First CSS file: layout CSS. Still very designer friendly and universal 3. Second CSS file: styling CSS. Makes our theme look great and unique. Will maybe be used in some parts by designers as a source of inspiration.
best regards, Frando -- Alan Dixon, Web Developer http://alan.g.dixon.googlepages.com/