Brian Beck wrote:
> I apologize if any of this has been discussed before. I looked around
> but didn't find much.
>
> There are a couple things I think could be improved with the default
> project skeleton made by quickstart. Let me know if there is good
> reasoning behind any decisions that have already been made regarding
> these. Some changes I'd like to see:
>
> 1. XHTML instead of HTML 4.01. This was a surprising change in
> behavior, wasn't XHTML the old default? Now this is just something else
> I have to go and change in app.cfg for every single project I create.
>

That's what ended up in every discussion on the tg group (as Max
pointed out):

http://hixie.ch/advocacy/xhtml

> 2. A default style.css. Creating a new file has slightly more overhead
> than modifying an existing style. Does anyone NOT create
> /static/css/style.css first thing after a new project?  I would be
> surprised. Plus with all the new tools being added, there is bound to
> be some default style included anyway; see the #pageLogin style now
> included in master.kid by default.
>

+1
http://trac.turbogears.org/turbogears/ticket/351

For widgets we now provide good css classes for the widget itself,
errors and required fields.

> 3. As you may have read, I think attaching Identity to an app should
> look a lot simpler if it's going to be in the default project. Right
> now it adds an immediate learning curve because "hey, what's that
> stuff?"
>

+1
Let's see what Jeff will bring us... ;-)

> 4. mochikit_all. This config option just stands out to me. I can
> configure the output format and encoding of my Kid templates, but this
> option flat out inserts some markup.  Besides the format and encoding
> options, I feel like my template structures are entirely under my
> control, only stuff I put in there will be in there. Maybe I'm just
> really picky, but I feel like a new tag coming from a config option
> undermines that control. Anyway, I could just leave this disabled and
> add MochiKit manually if it ruffles my feathers so much...
>

Then I'm picky like you and I confess I never liked this option that
much, but probably many people are using and loving it. :D

Ciao
Michele


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