Comments on: How to not write a skin http://anyonecanedit.org/blog/2009/09/how-to-not-write-a-skin/ Free content, free software and just about anything else free Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:12:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Chad http://anyonecanedit.org/blog/2009/09/how-to-not-write-a-skin/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Chad Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:42:06 +0000 http://anyonecanedit.org/blog/?p=266#comment-38 I would, but it's sooooooo messy. Couldn't pay me enough to fix Skin(Template) :) That being said, you guys have done a great job with Vector given the constraints of our skinning system. I would, but it’s sooooooo messy. Couldn’t pay me enough to fix Skin(Template) :)

That being said, you guys have done a great job with Vector given the constraints of our skinning system.

]]> By: Trevor Parscal http://anyonecanedit.org/blog/2009/09/how-to-not-write-a-skin/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Trevor Parscal Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:16:48 +0000 http://anyonecanedit.org/blog/?p=266#comment-37 Glad to see that you are enjoying Vector - thank you very much for the kind words. When I first set out to design the Vector skin, I had about 2 weeks to do so, and it had to work without any JavaScript, in both left-to-right and right-to-left languages, and in a large number of browsers including Internet Explorer 5.5. After spending 2 days prototyping out a new skinning system, it became clear that I was not going to have enough time to do both the skin and skinning system re-factoring. So while I agree with you very much, unfortunately the work of re-factoring the skinning system of MediaWiki fell too far outside the scope of the grant that is funding my work. But hey, it's open source! Anyone can do this work! Any takers? - Trevor Parscal Glad to see that you are enjoying Vector – thank you very much for the kind words.

When I first set out to design the Vector skin, I had about 2 weeks to do so, and it had to work without any JavaScript, in both left-to-right and right-to-left languages, and in a large number of browsers including Internet Explorer 5.5. After spending 2 days prototyping out a new skinning system, it became clear that I was not going to have enough time to do both the skin and skinning system re-factoring. So while I agree with you very much, unfortunately the work of re-factoring the skinning system of MediaWiki fell too far outside the scope of the grant that is funding my work.

But hey, it’s open source! Anyone can do this work! Any takers?

- Trevor Parscal

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