The Fight Against Divitis

Are you a semantic HTML purist that cringes when you view the source of a Drupal site? Are you a hard-core performance ninja that wants to optimize the DOM? Do you love the power and flexibility of Views and Panels, but gulp when you notice the markup they output? Then you need to learn the tools and techniques available to fight divitis!

Learn About Divitis

  • Dive into the markup Drupal 7 outputs by default.
  • Learn why Divitis is bad for performance, semantics, and efficient theming.
  • Understand the causes of Divitis in Drupal.

Diagnostic Tools

  • Firebug
  • Chrome Inspector
  • Firefox 3D View
  • DOM Monster

Drupal Toolbox

  • Devel Themer
  • Preprocess Functions
  • Templates
  • Fences
  • Display Suite
  • Views
  • Panels
  • Theme Functions
Slides: 
fight-against-divitis.zip
Schedule info
Status: 
Proposed
Session Info
Speaker(s): 
dcmouyard
Track: 
Frontend
Experience level: 
Advanced

Comments

BrockBoland's picture BrockBoland replied on

Dan is an experience speaker and has been honing this talk over the course of several presentations…but I haven't had a chance to see it yet. Hope to in Portland.

srjosh's picture srjosh replied on

Very interested in this talk. VERY! Hope to catch it in Portland.