Tommie Podzemski wrote:
Hi Devs,
Hey, Tommie!
Are there any plans for a template-system (think smarty) for Laconica?

While i think this could be quite the overhaul on how the system works today, i strongly believe it's one of those features which should make it to 1.0, if not earlier.
There are no plans for using a template system for Laconica. For high-volume sites, we simply can't afford the overhead that dog-slow templating systems like smarty bring.

My hope is that we can build a lightweight customization system with CSS and hooks. So, for the layout of the page, you'd use CSS to move elements around (say, moving the sidebar to the left of the page, or whatever). This works now.

We'd use hooks to let you add or remove HTML to the existing menus or to other parts of the page.

I think this would solve well over 95% of what people need to modify the interface.
Not to mention that its quite good code-ethics to actually segregate logic from presentation ;)
We already do that.

-Evan

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