Aryeh Gregor wrote:
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Trevor Parscal tparscal@wikimedia.org wrote:
Merging Monobook and Modern is actually a good point for one of my other ideas, which is to have themes for skins. In other words, same HTML generation, different CSS. Then Monobook and Modern could naturally be merged, Vector could have a different colored version, etc.
I'd still be interested in seeing some differences between Vector and Monobook HTML that are necessary at all. There are a *lot* of small, seemingly gratuitous differences that could be wiped out, like:
- No <div id="globalWrapper"> or <div id="column-content">
- Two empty <div class="noprint"> at the top, also <div id="mw-js-message">
- Lots of extra comments like <!-- sitenotice --> <!-- /sitenotice -->
<div id="head"> instead of <div id="column-one">, and it has class="noprint"
and so on.
Me too. And that's a good example of the things I'd like to have fixed before 1.16 so we can completely change the way some things were done on vector. Enough code had to be adapted (innecesarily) to vector on wikipedia now. Why force third users to vectorise if we are going to change it back?