Theme development

I have seen the smarty theme engine in CVS for a while, but could not figure out how to use it. Is there any theme that make use this that I can use as example?

http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/contributions/theme-engines/smarty/

I'm using phptemplate on my site ( http://ichris.ws ) now and am quite happy with it. But I have heard good things about smarty (on this site and smarty's) for the longest time and would like to try it out.

When I open those files, from the standard themes that comes with Drupal 4.5.0, in my text editor, I get a bunch of random text. What program do I need to edit these files?

Hello fellow Drupal users,
The new theme for Drupal.org doesn't seem to work all that well for Safari users. I'm not sure why but you can check it out here, at http://dippe.info/media/drupal.gif

Maybe I should yell at Apple but there's a diminutive possibility that something was overlooked when creating this, indeed very nice looking, theme.

Cheers

I'm wondering if anyone has used an alternative to GoLive on the linux platform to see xtemplate structure and edit it. I have bluefish and screem (relativley the same) but they don't display in tabular column format.

Hi guys,
I have read the documentation regarding the xTemplate system and I am having trouble finding a listing of {tags}.

Where can I find a detailed discusson reguarding what tags are out there or how to construct my own?

Thanks!

I want to use the $terms variable (taxonomy terms) in the pagetemplate of phptemplate. This show in the node template in the box_grey theme so I thought just using it would be okay. Well that did not work. so I tried to add the code used in the engine to set the node variables to the page template. this did not work either.

How do you best accomplish adding variables to a template?

TIA