Comments on: Clean Up After Drupal http://www.mrnordstrom.com/2010/02/27/clean-up-after-drupal/ Amsterdam Web Design • Daniel Nordstrom Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:58:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Andreas http://www.mrnordstrom.com/2010/02/27/clean-up-after-drupal/comment-page-1/#comment-6982 Andreas Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:19:04 +0000 http://www.mrnordstrom.com/?p=728#comment-6982 Thanks for highlighting an issue that's probably on a lot of drupal starters mind, who don't like to see their clean html + css get ruined by Drupal's sometimes bloated html output. A lot of long time drupalers seem to defend this vehemently, which becomes obvious after spending more than two minutes in the views issue queue. Another good example: http://www.palantir.net/blog/drupal-theming-applying-sustainable-method-views "I think that people need to stop trying to fiddle with the HTML layer in Drupal. Its not worth it, its not that interesting, and everything can be done with CSS anyway, and should be." Sure, Drupal and it's themes is and ought to be modular, but this "one site fits all" approach to theming isn't always what you or your client wants. Thanks for highlighting an issue that’s probably on a lot of drupal starters mind, who don’t like to see their clean html + css get ruined by Drupal’s sometimes bloated html output.

A lot of long time drupalers seem to defend this vehemently, which becomes obvious after spending more than two minutes in the views issue queue. Another good example: http://www.palantir.net/blog/drupal-theming-applying-sustainable-method-views

“I think that people need to stop trying to fiddle with the HTML layer in Drupal. Its not worth it, its not that interesting, and everything can be done with CSS anyway, and should be.”

Sure, Drupal and it’s themes is and ought to be modular, but this “one site fits all” approach to theming isn’t always what you or your client wants.

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