On Tue, 20 May 2014 23:38:14 +0200, Tyler Romeo tylerromeo@gmail.com wrote:
I wouldn't consider this change to be truly revolutionary. Would would really be a great restructuring of the skinning system is if I could make a skin by just writing a couple of HTML templates (probably using Gabriel's DOM-based templating language), throw them in a directory and then tell MediaWiki where the directory is.
It is not meant to be. I prefer moving forward in small steps :)
However, there is an ambitious RFC on this very topic in progress https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Redo_skin_framework. Enjoy.