[development] Table hook idea

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

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Earl Miles schrieb:
> Gordon Heydon wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Once drupal 6 is out I am going to be continuing my development of
>> merging theme(table) to the formapi. I have gotten the #pre_render into
>> the formapi so that we can generate the table from a drupal_render().
> 
> I am really against merging theme('table') and formapi for two reasons:
> 
> 1) I've already written that theme('table') is harmful to themers, in
> general. I want to see less use of it, not more.
> 
> 2) I feel very strongly that we do *too* much display-oriented work in
> fapi and we need to do less. We need to separate that work, not combine
> it more. Yes, we need to do it in such a way that we retain the power
> that we have, but right now we are giving the module developer power at
> the expense of the themer. This is a trend I am actively attempting to
> reverse.
> 

I am fearing the performance implications...

Cheers,
	Gerhard
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