While checking my gmail one of my favorite features is that little bar which shows news from a selection of websites. Apeerntly someone at Economist.com let a article go live that shouldn’t have.
Headline goes here in “headline” font
Or at least thats the headline. All the article has is the standard “The Economist welcomes your views.” At time of writing there are 27 comments and I must say, these commenters know their archetypes.
The ‘full’ article can be found on the site for now, http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15993648&fsrc=rss , image below the fold for posterity:
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I’ve spent the last week or so exploring Drupal and I must say that it is impressive.
Things I like:
- Backend dosn’t hide options behind menus or other pages
- Strictly enforced coding style
- Theme markup encourages presentation to be removed from data manipulation
- A block system that effectively gives users a ton of widget panels, and everything is placed like a WP widget would be
- A form api that takes care of mundane and verbose html input markup
- A ton of plugins that are rather generic yet well integrated with Drupal allowing for easy adoption and extension.
- A focus on security even if at the cost of higher minimum skill set for usage.
What I dislike:
- code style enforces the use of spaces instead of tab chars, which is positively insane.
In the end I like Drupal and am currently working on a port of the default WordPress Theme.
