On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 14:17:19 +0100, tarquin tarquin@planetunreal.com gave utterance to the following:
I think that saying it is "a new default skin" is not the way to go. Rather, first implement it as an alternative skin, and only then start seeing whether people want it as the default skin.
Andre Engels
No. Our default skin is terrible.
What precisely is terrible about it? IMO... - It leaves the user in control of font family and size, which is very good. - It is white-on-black, which is too contrasty for optimal reading for me - bad. - When not logged in, do we really need the redundancy of certain links which are on the left as well as at top and bottom? (I would suggest left and bottom only, putting the article higher, the biggest problem being the width of the special pages selectbox.