rant: customization woes

[thehandyman]

Before I actually start ranting, I want to point out that the reason I use Squirrel Cart is b/c I think it's the best shopping cart available, period.

That said, my one HUGE complaint is the seriously convoluted use of CSS throughout. Specifically:

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There is a LOT of hard-coded font and font size information scattered randomly thoughout the theme files
The admin SHARES many of the items in store.css (most notably, the box code) which looks terrible if you have made any real changes to it (in other words, the admin side should have a totally seperate css usage)
There is lots of non-standard style code (guess why there were so many Mac compatibility problems)
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I would really like to see the use of HTML style code standardized so that it's all in one place (ideally, all in a css file that uses squirrel-specific naming conventions, and does NOT redefine HTML tags (take "TD" for example... that one was a real mistake)... the store.css is a haphazard and weak step in the right direction).

Overall I wish the quality of the CSS and HTML reflected the excellent quality of the code and commerce engine itself!

Am I the only one on this side of the fence here?

[Jamie]

Hi,

All your points are good, and I agree with them. We will be improving upon all of them. The cart has been evolving, and unfortunately, we just haven't had the time to address every issue.

I started coding the cart about 2 years ago, and started marketing it about 10 months ago. We've made lots of improvements and progress since then. Most of the problems you are seeing are due to code that has been around for a while. While we will certainly address all the issues you mentioned, it may take us some time.

I would suggest opening a new thread in the "Requests" section for this, or move this one over. That way, we can track it's progress there.

Thanks!
Jamie

[Rich]

Consider it moved! :squirrel:

[thehandyman]

Thanks Rich.