Theme layout

Created by phobia. Last edited by phobia, 4 years and 24 days ago. Viewed 255 times. #2

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Themes should be able to control page layout. If I want to modify my site to look more like Confluence, with some metadata in the "content" column, I should not need to edit JSPs.

janit0r and I whiteboarded our dream layout system for SnipSnap. Themese would include a "layout" snip that defined the entire page. Perhaps later there could be multiple page layouts (edit snip, front page, etc.)

A layout snip would simply define panes via macros. I imagine the today's layout would look like:

{site-masthead:logo=snipsnap.gif}
{site-toolbar:registerLink=no|loginLink=yes}
{div:class=columnOne}
 {snip-title} // "snip" macros default to current snip context
 {snip-toolbar}
 {snip-content}
 {snip-comments} // renders self-link with querystring parameter to enable comment display
{div}
{div:class=columnTwo}
 {!./sidebar} // this referencing doesn't work yet
{div}

This would, however, render the current one-layer Radeox caching mechanism useless. This could be replaced by {snip-content} making a sub-call to Radeox, allowing it to cache (probably the cleanest way to implement this macro, anyway) and doing likewise with the include (bang) filter.

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