Thanks to yoroy, the display editor looks a lot nicer!

See http://drupal.org/node/148466

A couple of days ago I released an alpha version of Panels 2. There is still a lot to be done; I have a huge list of features I still need to work on, and of course I haven't written much documentation. And it's totally broken in Safari still. But aside from that, I think it's looking good.

This project has taught me a LOT about javascript. I'm no expert yet, but I'm starting to feel competent with javascript. I'm much more comfortable with the basic language constructs and moderately more comfortable with various bits of DOM manipulation.

The actual code in phptemplate.engine has been vastly reduced, and much of what it does has been made inherent to Drupal. The PHPTemplate renderer has been made the default renderer. As of Drupal 6, the primary purpose of a theme engine is to tell Drupal to use a different renderer (and, if they like a different extension. i.e, .smarty instead of .tpl.php).

Today I officially handed the Views’ Bonus Pack off to dmitrig01 — he’s proven himself over the last few months as a good Drupaller, and I know he’ll take better care of the project than I have. Perhaps that huge list of issues that I’ve not really gotten to will get taken care of, plus new features will make it into the mix.