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Drupal 7 standards

Submitted by root on Mon, 12/15/2008 - 12:31

Angie Byron of the Lullabots wants to improve standards-compliance in theming in the upcoming version of Drupal has posted the following plea on her blog:

If table-based layouts offend you on a deeply personal level, we need your help!

As a standards zealot, one of the things I'd personally love to see happen in Drupal 7 is the eradication of table-based layouts. I'm giving stink-eye directly at you, Pushbutton, Chameleon, and Bluemarine. These themes are a strange abberation from the Drupal project's otherwise very meticulous attention to detail regarding web standards ... The overall gist is:

  • Replace Drupal's default markup with a flexible, standards-based framework that's easy to extend.
  • Hold a theming contest which uses the base markup, and select the best N designs to go into core as sub-themes.
  • Remove the old, crufty themes and replace them with the new, gorgeous ones.

So if you either a) are a web standards zealot who wants to lend your expertise to the discussion on selecting the default markup, or b) have some time / energy / etc. to help organize a theming contest, please coordinate over at groups.drupal.org/node/16200!