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Re: Restyled Textpattern Interface
Destry, did you mean this one?
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Re: Restyled Textpattern Interface
The problem that rss_admin_quikpik is having, is that it coded in such a way that took advantage of the table structure and hooks on to that.
This may just be semantics but rss_admin_quikpik is not having a problem. The purpose of the plugin is to modify parts of the admin interface and the admin interface uses tables. So in my book, the problem is the attempt to use a plugin with hacked Textpattern code.
Now mind you, this is exactly what the quikpik menu was, a hacked version of txplib_head.php. But I can tell you that is was a big pain to update my installations and update the hack each time there was a change to the base code. Considering there isn’t even a stable 1.0 release of Textpattern yet you can assume that code is going to change. Thats why I spent time converting it to a plugin.
Again, I’m not overly familar with what this mod does (although I’ve seen the screenshot and it does look nice) but I don’t think it would be terrible to create as a plugin. Through DOM scripting you could delete the entire set of nested tables and inject your own code and stylesheet. That exactly what the quikpik menu does.
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Re: Restyled Textpattern Interface
> wilshire wrote:
> bq. Thats why I spent time converting it to a plugin.
Time well spent, hack are very much a pain where you know. Most of us probably have a few for very perosnnal things, for “big” things we don’t really need more hack. SVN can merge yes, but to a certain extent, it hasn’t got a brain yet :)
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#28 2005-04-27 20:30:37
- arpan
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Re: Restyled Textpattern Interface
but would that not mean that the entire table based design has to be downloaded as well, in addition to the CSS & DOM code. That kinda defeats the whole purpose. Using CSS is supposed to speed up the site, not slow it down.
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I would tend to agree with Arpan; downloading all the markup, plus the dom and the new CSS code does get a bit … inefficient?
As of this afternoon, I’ve been toying with the idea of destroying every ounce of table markup in the interface and placing Div’s in its place, although admittedly, this looks to be a bit of a daunting task.
I’m almost positive that most of us have done away with table markup when it comes our own sites, so why then have we allowed the markup to creep into the interface? I’m sure Zem, Kusor, and Dean are busy with more important things than this write now, but this is something that I would definitely like changed.
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Re: Restyled Textpattern Interface
but would that not mean that the entire table based design has to be downloaded as well, in addition to the CSS & DOM code. That kinda defeats the whole purpose. Using CSS is supposed to speed up the site, not slow it down.
Indeed. No argument from me on that. I don’t think there’s any disagreement here. The ideal solution here would be to work on cleaning up the markup used for the admin interface at some point in the future rather than hacking the code of rewriting the page using DOM scripting. Don’t know if its been posted there yet but this would be a good topic to start up in Feature Requests.
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Re: Restyled Textpattern Interface
Anton wrote: Destry, did you mean this one?
That would indeed be the one I was referring to. Thanks for digging that up, I wanted to read it again.
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#32 2005-04-28 17:31:19
- arpan
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Re: Restyled Textpattern Interface
Indeed. No argument from me on that. I don’t think there’s any disagreement here. The ideal solution here would be to work on cleaning up the markup used for the admin interface at some point in the future rather than hacking the code of rewriting the page using DOM scripting. Don’t know if its been posted there yet but this would be a good topic to start up in Feature Requests.
Perhaps something for 1.1
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#33 2005-04-30 19:18:23
- steventer
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Re: Restyled Textpattern Interface
some drop down menus extend way past the bottom of my screen — which means that I can’t access anything on a menu below the the bottom of my window. How do I uninstall this?
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Re: Restyled Textpattern Interface
If you are talking about with rss_admin_quikpik (which I am assuming you are), you can uninstall the plugin by going to the Plugins page in the admin panel (Admin -> Plugins) and either delete the plugin or just deactivate it (Active? No). You can try to work around this, though, by going to the quikpik admin settings (Admin -> Quikpik Prefs), and decreasing the text size of the menus.
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Re: Restyled Textpattern Interface
try go to http://www.your-domain.com/textpattern/index.php?event=plugin and deactivate the plugin, or just restore the original txphead_lib/css and that will fix it.
Unfortunately, this modification is not compatible with the latest quik-pik plugin. I’ve had mixed results encapsulating the top div with a < table > tag. It becomes viewable, just not so pretty….
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