There are many other issues with Nostalgia skin too. I never played with it until recently, when I fixed a bug in its printable version. I noticed that it doesn't have links to "my settings" et al, for example.
What I think is, Nostalgia should be rewritten some day. If this is going to happen, however, I think it should be written having in mind the standards/traditions used in other skins. In particular, layout should be changed in a way that more nested DIVs are introduced which can be styled using CSS.
Just a few ideas out of blue...
Hojjat (aka Huji)
On 10/8/08, nsk nsk@karastathis.org wrote:
Nostalgia is a MediaWiki skin that has been introduced before 1.3, when MonoBook became the default. It is available for use in Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites for registered users. It is the skin that I like best, but I think it is in need of some improvement.
The skin appears to have some usability problems that other skins don't have: you cannot easily find your user pages when using Nostalgia, and there is no easy link for uploads apart from a drop down menu which is too unorganised.
I would like to know whether there is any interest from other users/developers about Nostalgia (or whether I am the only one using it!), and if so what you would like to see in an improved more modern version of Nostalgia (with the same general looks, but not putting the user in a disadvamtaged position from a usability standpoint comprared to the other skins, particularly the default one). What would you think can be considered wrong with the current Nostalgia, and how would you like it to be?
PS: I have put a quick patch (15868) on bugzilla to include user pages in Nostalgia.
-- Thanks, NSK Nikolaos S. Karastathis, http://karastathis.org/
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