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TxPun - Where to? · 2007-11-05 11:15

The plan was always to keep the core code intact and build upon it, via plugins, extensions or whatever mechanism a project had at it’s disposal.

The plan has changed, core code is fair game:

The above web applications are solid performing, stable and secure. Bringing them together, while keeping their current virtues, is my quest the trick.

When it’s ready ;)

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Comments

  1. It’s great to read where your headed with this project.

    Ever since hearing about it on the Textpattern Forums, I’ve been looking forward to see all your hard work come together.

    — Ross · Nov 9, 05:27 AM · #

  2. Hi Ross,

    Nice to hear words of encouragement :)

    — Bert · Nov 9, 12:13 PM · #

  3. as for admin backends, i’ve been a fan of danhoy’s design .

    — steve lam · Dec 10, 01:05 AM · #

  4. Hey Steve,

    Dan Hoy’s design is nice as are some of the others floating around. At present I’m gathering them all up and testing each one out.

    Along with a new admin look, I’m also playing with implementing syntax highlighting in the presentation tab. The two I’m testing are EditArea and CodePress, can’t quite decide which one to use.

    — Bert · Dec 10, 09:32 AM · #

  5. Regarding admin interfaces I must admit I’m quite a fan of this one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hicksdesign/989595974/ (although not necessarily the colour scheme). I always found the idea of having two sets of tabs confusing.

    Built in syntax highlighting? I’m really looking forward to this.

    — Ross · Dec 14, 05:40 AM · #

  6. I tried Hicks Design, I like the layout, reminds me of EE.

    With all the designs available, I’d like to see us have the ability to choose from different admin styles in the backend, ala Joomla!.

    — Bert · Dec 15, 02:18 AM · #

  7. hey bert, i actually tried out codepress before as well. i like its implementation much better than all of these other syntax highlighting txp plugins that require you to add a tag on the page.

    BUT, codepress became rather unusable (at least for me) while i was editing a typically sized page template. mind you i added a language file to recognize txp tags as well but overall it slowed down the textarea editing considerably. i assume it has something to do with how it needs to redraw each time you edit/type anything.

    — steve lam · Dec 21, 02:49 AM · #

  8. as for hicks admin theme, i like it as well but i find its rather buggy. using firefox on XP, some items would jump around when clicked. i personally don’t like the elastic layout either.

    qrayg’s remake of hicks theme fixes the bugs and rids it of the elastic layout as well.

    — steve lam · Dec 21, 02:52 AM · #

  9. Hey Steve,

    Codepress slowing down I think has to do with how the browsers handle Javascript. Firefox 2 does appear to slow down where FF3 seems to handle things better. FF3 beta2 appears to do away with a lot of my concerns with adding widgets to the backend of Textpattern.

    I’ve been testing out Joomla! 1.5, not that I’m going to ditch TxP for J!, but I’m getting a lot of ideas for improving TxPun. It also reacts better to FF3, and it’s backend is pretty busy.

    Grayg’s remake looks good but the link to his download is gone.

    — Bert · Dec 21, 11:39 AM · #

  10. as for crockery being the future..i’m beginning to think thats a permanent case. as in, it’s not ever going to show its face in the present.

    i still don’t understand why the official txp weblog is never updated…and when it is, its completely irrevelant like the last entry was. sigh.

    — steve lam · Dec 22, 05:15 AM · #

  11. Crockery has been the future since I started following TxP over 2 years ago.

    It takes but a few minutes to put up a post using TxP, especially if you’re a developer.

    What can I say that I haven’t already, I’m at a loss as to why small projects lose their way.

    — Bert · Dec 22, 07:34 AM · #

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