On 02/11/2010 02:31 PM, Jack Phoenix wrote:
Wow, this sparked quite a discussion -- I'm pleased to hear that so many people are interested in reworking MW's skin system to make it better! :-)
As per Tim's request, I've created a branch for this in r62304 and applied the initial patch in r62306. Feel free to check out the branch[1] and submit patches against it -- I've only tested my initial patch against the obvious errors (parse errors, fatals).
This is great, just one question though - will "old-style" skins still be supported (for a few versions at least)? I have a dozen or so skins that currently work, it would be an absolute nightmare if I have to upgrade them all when MediaWiki swaps over to this. Perhaps a compatibility layer could be put over the top of the new system to resemble the old.
Conrad