September 11, 2008

All not well in the world of Drupal themes?

A graphical depiction of a very simple css doc...Image via Wikipedia

It seems Template Monster is now offering Drupal themes as part of it’s collection (it also previously offered Joomla themes).  Top Notch Themes was hot on their case, and showed some horrific tables-based markup and hard coded block CSS selectors in one of the Template Monster themes.

drupal4hu also brought up Template Monster themes, twice.  Looks like Template Monster is going to need to step it up a notch if they want to applease the Drupal community.  CSS based markup would be a nice start :)
And also, non-themeing related, if you want a humorous journey of browser identification themes, ending with Google Chrome, you’ll need to check this out!

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August 24, 2008

Drupal Databases: The Next Generation

Peggy's Cove harbour #1Image by palestrina55 via Flickr

It sounds kinda like Star Trek, but trust me, this is a lot more exciting!  Drupal 7 will access databases using PDO (PHP Data Objects), which allows Drupal to support many different Database Servers in the future (and will bring us one step closer to Drupal running on a SQLite3 flat-file database, woohoo!).

A few people covered the patch arriving in core.  And now, even after this major 343.92 KB has been committed, there is still work to be done!  A task list posting on g.d.o lists 11 issues (both bugs and features) that now need to be implemented because this patch has hit core.  It feels like FormAPI all over again :)

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