No date has been announced. He's still working on the framework. I'm sure very little work has been done on an application using it (Vanilla). Be patient.
The framework is done and Mark is working on Vanilla 2 since December. I think he should be working on design. He was hoping a preview would be ready for February.
I am currently doing design on Vanilla 2 and polishing up the final features of the Garden core. I wish I could give a definitive release date, too, but I just don't know.
I have some graphic designer colleagues helping me out with the layout/design - but CSS is not my strong suit, so it is slow going.
In the last week I've changed the layout of Vanilla three times. That's the stage I'm currently at: revise, revise, revise, revise, ad infinitum. Every time I get a design in place, I realize that there is a core feature that I need, or a core feature that should be removed, etc.
My hope is that once I've nailed this part of the process down, I'll be able to put a beta online for all you guys to get a kick at.
I'll be notifiying all of the regularly active community members via email when they can get access to the beta.
Did layout frameworks like the 960 Grid System get any consideration for Vanilla 2? Or that there's enough hooks to use such a stylesheet without needing to play with delegates?
Edit: Just read the comments in the latest blog post CSS 101, but this comment is what I'm thinking of re: possibly extraneous markup. An extra div or two won't hurt. Really.
Even CSS Zen Garden threw in a few extra for people to play with. Admittedly they weren't tied into the structure, and in that respect would be good candidates for adding by delegate. I remember plunking through the Vanilla HTML and seeing I needed one or two wrapper divs to make it work. Which meant digging through more than one php file. The tabs were funny too. I was hoping for a Dan Cederholm-esque bulletproof method.
Will the Garden Framework have a method for saving an array into a file? This will be very handy for saving settings of plugins. Its a thing I miss in the current framework.
Does Vanilla 2 support subcategories out-of-the-box?
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I have some graphic designer colleagues helping me out with the layout/design - but CSS is not my strong suit, so it is slow going.
In the last week I've changed the layout of Vanilla three times. That's the stage I'm currently at: revise, revise, revise, revise, ad infinitum. Every time I get a design in place, I realize that there is a core feature that I need, or a core feature that should be removed, etc.
My hope is that once I've nailed this part of the process down, I'll be able to put a beta online for all you guys to get a kick at.
I'll be notifiying all of the regularly active community members via email when they can get access to the beta.
Edit: Just read the comments in the latest blog post CSS 101, but this comment is what I'm thinking of re: possibly extraneous markup. An extra div or two won't hurt. Really.
Does Vanilla 2 support subcategories out-of-the-box?