Indeed it is easy to get a headache from the first video, as Kasper himself says. It is set in an entertaining environment and the cookies are nice, but as far as I see, this example site he builds is too small for the practical demostration of the *benefits* of the approach used. It just needs too much clicks, keystrokes, knowing TypoScript, coding big chunks and such.
The internationalization video however is a lot more interesting. Still it uses too much TypoScript to be easy to set up for anybody who is only remotely experienced (and even needs a little bit of core modification - maybe just for demonstration), but the concepts (and some solutions) are nice. Drupal does not have capabilities to bend itself that much, but we don't need to learn a new script language, so there is at least some benefit for us :)
As the different i18n approaches needed for different pages shows, there is little room for sensible defaults and more for well placed settings and features.
Indeed it is easy to get a headache from the first video, as Kasper himself says. It is set in an entertaining environment and the cookies are nice, but as far as I see, this example site he builds is too small for the practical demostration of the *benefits* of the approach used. It just needs too much clicks, keystrokes, knowing TypoScript, coding big chunks and such.
The internationalization video however is a lot more interesting. Still it uses too much TypoScript to be easy to set up for anybody who is only remotely experienced (and even needs a little bit of core modification - maybe just for demonstration), but the concepts (and some solutions) are nice. Drupal does not have capabilities to bend itself that much, but we don't need to learn a new script language, so there is at least some benefit for us :)
As the different i18n approaches needed for different pages shows, there is little room for sensible defaults and more for well placed settings and features.
January 17, 2007 - 19:12