I think it's a good thing for organizing the image elements of webpages, such that the site can start off with stock templates, and subsections can be progressively modified without re-coding the DTML (e.g. by graphic non-programmer types), by (e.g.) putting same-named .gif's in subdirectories.... sort of like, inheritance for .gif's. But... probably would be better to have a special foldertype to make that clear.
i agree, some type of generic folder wich would maybe stick to the top or bottom of the object list which would inherit from its parent too and would contain all generic stuff which is for the moment clurttering the root folder. lets say i have this folder1 / images folder1 / folder2 / images i'd like to call the images always as "images/xxx.gif" whether i'm in folder1 or folder2 that would greatly clean the code imho, $ven