[development] Strip out theme functions into a .theme file

[Bèr Kessels]

Op donderdag 3 augustus 2006 19:37, schreef Nick Wilson:
> Just getting developers to make sure tables and other html elements have
> unique id's or classes would be wonderful -- im all for this, but i
> think it would be beneficial if some of the theming functions *required*
> these optional attributes.

We had a long thread abotu this when I tried to introduce exactly this in a 
theme_wrapper() http://drupal.org/node/23584
I hoped that would become a general "add some HTML around this string" 
function. It enforced unique IDs and allowed nice classes.

But it seems the community is split when it comes to this: developers want to 
include only the IDs and CLASSes they need for their case: fair enough. The 
themers part of the community has been begging for some guidelines in IDs and 
classes for ages. 

For that latter group I decided that we need to do this on the theme level: 
its "our" domain ;)
 I therefore aim at, what I call brickslate, an engine that makes sure you 
receive proper IDs and CLASSes, consistently names, in nice, useful and clean 
HTML. 
 The first step towards this can already be seen in the phptemplate theme 
whatisinitsname: 
http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/themes/whatsinitsname/ and 
http://webschuur.com/taxonomy/term/65

I am now finishing up the first theme I built on top of this frame, and so far 
I am impressed. I designed a pure CSS theme with only CSS, with hardly ever 
changing the actual HTML I outputted, and I found the naming iof the IDs and 
classes very easy to grok and remember. But I will refrain from releasing 
anything, untill I have build more themes on this base. With this you can 
help, by using it and giving feedback :) After all "the proof of the pudding 
is in the eating" (or so)

Once I am happy with this whatsinitsname theme, I want to move it a step 
further: fork/rewrite PHPtemplate so it outputs this stuff by default, and 
makes it a lot more consistent and easier: brickslate.

I suspect that if we get such a theme system running properly and get it 
sorted out to be the perfect HTML generator after some time, that thatwill 
trickle back into core and contribs. Then contribs and core can start to 
follow the consistent naming conventions we introduced!

Bèr
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