On 11-10-01 05:30 PM, Erik Moeller wrote:

In case you haven't seen it, there are some interesting ideas in the new skin developed by the Blender community for its wiki:

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Meta:Skins/Naiad

It was clearly designed especially to support structured documentation:

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.5/Manual

Among the more interesting ideas employed here are automatic changes to the layout to make the best use of the available screen resolution.

Cheers, Erik

Beautiful. And nice to see one more example of css3-mediaquery based liquid layouts. ^_^ I've loved the idea of moving the TOC outside of the page content, I had thought of doing it myself on another wiki. Although, I don't quite like how they nearly eliminate all navigation instead of moving it to the bottom of the page or making it a dropdown.

I'd love to put that skin in svn and port it to function with the 1.18-1.19 skin improvements and try to turn the extra features into generic systems to hook into that could also be used in other skins.

Their context-sensitive navigation intrigues me a bit. I'm actually working with a client right now that also has a navigation dependent on the page. We'll both probably solve that in some custom way. But I should definitely consider integrating functionality to be able to create a standard set of navigation and incorporate page-context-sensitive navigation into it.

Actually maybe I should come up with some sort of skin options config system. I already planned regions and eliminating personal_urls, content_{actions,navigation}, and toolbox in favour of a system that gives you all the links and lets you define ui elements and where link groups should go. And also other navigation types and a special page for them. Maybe I should take another step and see if I can let you drop different navigation blocks into certain parts of a skin.

~Daniel Friesen (Dantman, Nadir-Seen-Fire) [http://daniel.friesen.name]