On 07/16/2013 08:20 PM, Jon Robson wrote:
It does however point to a need for being able to customise tweaks out of the box. In Tumblr you can do things like change the font colour, heading colours etc. If we were to move to something like SASS or LESS compiled CSS ResourceLoader support it would be trivial to generate new themes with different colour schemes... which would be super cool.
I know SASS and LESS are cool, but we don't need them for that. It's quite possible to dynamically generate simple CSS for things like heading colors. There's already some dynamic CSS for other purposes in core (e.g. underline preferences, link colors). An extension could do this too.
Common.css is not the place for these sorts of changes - it just leads to css cascade abuse.
Wiki administrators are still going to want this ultimate flexibility, but that doesn't mean it needs to be the only option.
Matt Flaschen