I was going to keep my mouth shut, but.......
Keeping it there is same like you'd said to
whoever "Don't you
worry, you
can have unsafe sex, because there are ways how
to cure veneral
diseases." Isn't better to prevent the cure?
I'll skip responding to this rather lurid question.
I won't - if the one little piece of the entire puzzle is a small
change in a stylesheet, then your analogy really should be
if venereal disease is a potential problem - do have sex. In other
words you don't like the stylesheet - don't use the software.
I expect your caterwaulerin' ain't gonna' drum up much bidness or
e'en support. The fix is simple and easy and even recommended,
as in - as nice as Wikipedia (it's it siblings, second cousins,
foreign relations et al) is/are - do you really want your site to be
"exactly"
like them? Show a little initiative and change your corner of the
world - go wild - change a style sheet (or two) - in fact use web-unsafe
colours, odd point sizes and horizontal rules (eh strike the last
one,,,,). It's your site, or even your employer's site - make it sing,
make it
dance - make it your own.
Isn't better to prevent superfluous
overriding (= wasting the time
to solve > something which did not have to be
solved if there was no
limitation)?
There are always limitations and there are always choices. Decide
for yourself what works for you and as the ad men say - "just do it".
Just because it works for you does not mean it works for everyone
else. Just imagine your contributions as a pair of shoes - they are
functional and useful, but they don't fit everyone. Furthermore
there will always be at least one person who thinks they stink.
I'd say that the vast majority of users of the mediawiki software are
happy with it as it is.
Yes and one of the things that makes it so useful and me so happy if
that with a small investment of time and thought, I can get the
same code base to look way different as I design a corporate portal
for a techgroup , an online tutorial for high-school trig and a
vanity site full of odd perversions of CSS and HTML design
standards. Your dream, you do it. Share it, but don't claim to the world
that your dream is better - people get testy about that sorta' thang!
'nuff said, but I'm sure there will be more.
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