Zukakakina

Since working with Tiki version 1.10, it's almost painful to go back to the 1.9 version. This is probably partly due to the way I have things organized now. I've been trying out and adjusting various aspects of 1.10 theme files, being pretty much immersed in this version. But there are also tangible differences in the way the two versions do things, and 1.10 does make things easier.

For one thing, there's no separate error.tpl file, so the routine procedure of duplicating tiki.tpl and switching in the error-specific content is eliminated — not a big thing but one I'm glad to not have to think about.

In version 1.10, some of the templates that have caused a problem for *litecss-based themes have been fixed. The problem was usually a missing or misplaced closing div tag, which doesn't bother table-based layouts but usually caused the columns to be staggered or something with the liquid themes.

Also with the new version the emphasis is on using as few theme-specific custom templates as possible, and the flip side of this is that the default templates will be adjusted as necessary if there are problems. Most of the new theme versions I'm working on have only one or two unique template files, and the differences aren't major, so maintenance will be pretty easy.