On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 19:49 +0100, Timwi wrote:
I fear that skin designers would be tempted to simply modify the xml if it was mandatory to add a per-skin template anyway.
Nothing should stop them from doing so if they so wish.
That's not what i was suggesting, i was merely lobbying against promoting this way of skinning as it has disadvantages further down the road, mainly with accessibility and caching.
But then, the caching scheme isn't implemented yet, so it doesn't matter that much currently. Could be hard to reverse though.
In that case, I'll object to any change that would require skins to use the same XHTML ;-)
Well, if you want to cache the entire page the xhtml has to be pretty much the same. If you're prepared to generate a new page for every skin you can go the easier route. Then you have to accept that it's not as fast to generate a page many times.
I've tried to move towards more caching in all skin- and pref-related changes i've done so far. Unfortunately enthusiasm for more caching has been very limited so far and it's not completely trivial to implement. No need to fight for something nobody wants. A bit sad nevertheless.