Matt Hampel | matth.org

I’m hoping the thousands of tiny unpolished spots on Drupal will disappear as I try to catalog them.

• The HTML thrown up for “blocks” smells oddly like 1999: <div class="block block-block" id=block-block-1">
• The Biblio module’s Install file has this mature warning: NOTE: THIS FILE IS NOTE[sic] UP TO DATE!! (what do you want for nothing :-(?)
• Because the Drupal.org search feature connected with the navigation, I’m never sure if I’m searching the forum I’m in or the whole site:
• So I usually start searching for Drupal answers with Google, but Google’s index of drupal.org is much worse than Drupal’s index
• One of Drupal’s favorite pastimes is wrapping ALL YOUR STUFF in divs and spans. Which means a lot of tracking things down and hacking at the php source. Contrast to the sparkling clean output Textpattern, where you can cleanly see and edit every single query or wrap in the admin section (which is beautifully mediated by a tag-style interface that saves us from having to actually write the SELECT statements).
• There is a block element (block as in Drupal block, not DOM block) that I’m trying to track down. Its configuration page offers no clues as to its location within the management interface.