[development] Why is Overlay in core?

[Ezra B. Gildesgame]

Hi Brian,

You may wish to check out this issue: http://drupal.org/node/659488 . Needs
review :).


Ezra

Ezra Barnett Gildesgame | http://growingventuresolutions.com |
http://ezra-g.com


On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Brian Vuyk <brian at brianvuyk.com> wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> I've been using D7 to get familiar with it, testing / writing patches, and
> to begin porting my contrib module. It is awesome, but the one thing that
> sticks out to me is the inclusion of Overlay in core.
>
> Why are we including Overlay enabled by default in core? What functional
> purpose does it serve beyond eye-candy?  I realize that it potentially
> allows you to remain on your current front-end page while doing some admin
> tasks, but isn't that why tabbed browsing was invented? This breaks anyways
> when you get redirected with a drupal_goto() somewhere.
>
> My biggest complaint is that It slows down the admin work of the site
> considerably, at least in my workflow.
>
> I don't mean to take away from the work that was put into overlay - some
> very talented people have put a lot of time and effort into building it,
> polishing it, and fixing some oddball performance issues. But it just
> doesn't seem to stick with the core philosophy.
>
> At least this module should be disabled by default in core.
>
> Brian
>
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