Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
(tarquin tarquin@planetunreal.com):
This is just a very rough mockup. I've devised some substitution syntax :-) -- see the comments in the html.
I don't see any use for a template system at all. It's just a performance penalty for no gain in either flexibility or capability.
Suppose I'd like to make improvements to the current skins -- how do I get HTML & CSS that I can work with? I can find the CSS files for the existing skins in the stuff I got from CVS, but everything else is in PHP. Where is the actual HTML made and how can I see it?
What I'm interested in seeing is a /complete page/, fully rendered,
with all text, markup, and style elements.
You mean a Wikipedia page that's just like one I would save from my web browser?
Those sound useful; if you can integrate that into the existing stylesheets, so much the better.
From what I can tell from Skin.php, the current system shoves a "bgcolor" => "#FFFFDD" into the HTML's BODY tag Change that to shove a class= ... as in my notes: "class" => "article" and "class" => "meta" presumably