On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 1:18 PM, DanTMan dan_the_man@telus.net wrote:
Hmmm, so you're using Smarty in MediaWiki? How far did you compare template engines? The Skin system was something we discussed in #mediawiki as something which could use some rewriting. Quite simply Skins aren't meant to be made in PHP. All this performance is nice, but there are issues when your Web Designers need to know how to write PHP to be able to create a skin in HTML. Additionally the actual inclusion of the various styles and scripts could probably use some simplification in order to make updates to what we include more portable.
I didn't go too far, but for the purpose of Widgets it was more then enough so I stayed with it. I didn't have ambition to redo the skinning system for MediaWiki ;)
~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of: -The Gaiapedia (http://gaia.wikia.com) -Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG) -and Wiki-Tools.com (http://wiki-tools.com)