nitobe 6.x-4.0

Changes in this release

A number of changes have been made that will have an impact on your site if you currently use Nitobe.

• Nitobe has been completely overhauled and a number of CSS classes have been changed or added. If you have sub-themed Nitobe, you will need to test this release before deploying it to your live site. A number of fixes and enhancements to the 960.gs grid system have been copied from Joon Park's NineSixty theme.
• Three-column layouts are now supported. When using two sidebars, they may be placed on either side of the content region, both to the right of the content region, or both to the left of the content region.
• The large block region below the content and sidebars is now four distinct regions.
• The theme is now a content-first theme. This means that, regardless of layout, the content region always appears first in the source file. This increases the accessibility of the pages to screen readers and is a search engine optimization.
• Headers are now more semantic. When viewing the front page, the site title is the H1 element, on a node page, the page title is the H1 element, and the site title is a SPAN element. All block headers are now H2 elements.
• Node tags and links are no longer re-processed by the theme. In prior releases, the theme regenerated the node taxonomy and node links. This caused problems with several add-on modules and was subject to a bug in Drupal's core Taxonomy system. The previous functionality, which placed commas between tags and vertical bars between links is now achieved by a regular expression on the pre-rendered $links and $terms variables.
• User pictures should now be compatible with modules that provide custom user pictures.
• Typography is now based on the typography used in the Blueprint CSS framework. This provides a better visual rhythm than the typography provided by the 960 Grid System.
• The site title effect which causes interword spacing to be removed and every other word to be an alternate color can now be turned off. This feature was present in an early version of Nitobe, but removed.
• The setting to allow the breadcrumb to be removed if it was a single item has been removed. If you need this functionality, consider using the Menu Breadcrumb module.
• The list of header images is no longer cached unless caching is enabled in your site's performance section. In prior releases, this caused some confusion when users added header images as they would not appear for some time. If caching is disabled, the header image list will be reloaded each time a page is loaded.
• The ability to suppress the 'reply' link under each comment has been removed as this feature tended to cause problems.
• CSS support for the Book and Forum modules has been improved.
• The theme setting "Show date stamp" has been removed as this duplicated the functionality of the global "Display post information on" setting.

Issues resolved

• #432024: Opera 9.60 doesn't correctly shows comments
• #479374: Nitobe causing taxonomy offset errors?
• #385214: Read-only fields rendered poorly
• #439118: aggressive CSS reset overrides table background colors
• #438972: $links not properly used in node.tpl.php
• #521806: Add child page and printer-friendly links missing from book page