New subject: subskin customizations

12 Feb 2014

On 12/02/2014, at 13:00, mediawiki-l-request(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote:

...
  But how do you add HTML? This is the primary challenge
for us. Adding the
 ability to do this would, I think, substantially extend the power of
 Daniel's excellent tutorial. Would you be willing to share some of the code
 you use for adding custom HTML in myskin.skin.php?

 Best,
 Forest 

You might be interested in a MediaWiki skinning framework I've been working on called
Skinny: http://github.com/andru/skinny

Rather than the usual everything-in-one-giant-execute-method of MediaWiki skins it breaks
down the HTML into small template files which can be overridden by 'subskins'.  It
makes defining and loading custom resources via ResourceLoader much easier and it also
introduces the concept of skin 'layouts', which allows page layouts to be set on a
per-page basis without CSS hacks.

It's still undergoing serious breaking changes on a regular basis and it's totally
undocumented, but it's gradually approaching a fairly stable API and I'm working
on a demo wiki for it which I hope to have up in a few weeks.  

You can check out an implementation of a skin developed using it called Booty, which is a
highly configurable bootstrap-3 based skin I'm working on:
http://github.com/andru/booty - Again, unfinished and undocumented! So far I've only
been using these myself for client projects.

I'll also be finishing up two client projects in the coming weeks which feature skins
based on Booty, so there'll soon be some examples of it in the wild.

I'll announce it here when the demo/documentation wiki is up, but since this
conversation is relevant I thought I'd drop in an early note about it here incase
it's of any use.

andru vallance / tinymighty.com

Re: [MediaWiki-l] subskin customizations