I've been using the handbooks more and more, to the point where I'm going to start working towards writing some basic documentation on how some modules work together, customising drupal forums etc.
However, I've noticed that there's often no version or date associated with handbook pages, which can make it very tricky working out which version of drupal they apply to.
for example. There's at least four sections devoted to php snippets, not to mention pages underneath these:
This section must be read carefully, no offense, but this section is my point of view in Joomla/Mambo, PhpNuke and Wordpress experience compare to Drupal. Hope this can improve Drupal.
NO WYSIWYG Editor by default
First, you may say that my article layout is good enough: contain bold text, there's a page break, a list of number, header text, code tag and etc. BUT, do you know that I must type these tags MANUALLY?
Yes, sometimes i use <br/> which is not meet HTML standard then I must edit again to <br /> with a space. How to make you see the list of number in my article? I must manually type: <ul>, followed by <li>, closed by </li> and ending by </ul>. Sometimes I am forgot to close with </ul> then my article look like ... you know that.
This is the disadvantage of Drupal 4.7.3, which I think easy to solve but I don't understand why the Drupal team doesn't provide it. You may say that I can use third party module called TinyMCE. But, TinyMCE is very basic Editor compare to FCKEditor or mosCE for me. Simple thing like add image to article by mouse click can not provide by TinyMCE! You must know the image URL. You can not browse to find the image you want.
How come a CMS doesn't have a built-in WYSIWYG Editor?
Adding built-in editor required 300 KB - 1.5 MB. If size is matter for Drupal than Drupal can put the editor modules as separate downloadable file, but still as official Drupal module. This built-in or offiicial module also avoid repeated/conflict of language parameters if any. Also, since this module is built-in then the size will be smaller because Drupal can use existing function, language string and image.
Again, how come a CMS doesn't have a built-in WYSIWYG Editor?
I am new to Durpal. I have a css file that I placed in the 'misc' directory, but it is not linked to my page. The question is where is the correct location of css files? The Drupal documentation seems to lack example walk-throughs of the basic functionality, such as what I am asking here. Or am I wrong? please help.