Martin - I honestly do not see this division of two schools, or ways
of doing things.

I have been working for years on PmWiki and always advocating and
pioneering more control in the hands of admins. My first skins had
about six subpages (zones), when the default skin had one. We
developed a script which allowed css to be put into a wiki page, and
this page was used as a standard css page, cached as well as wiki
editable.

Javascript never made it onto editable wiki pages in PmWiki because it
is so dangerous. If you hack a css page, you can ruin the display of
an entire site. If you hack a javascript page, you can ruin an entire
computer system.

It is not about a developer having an easy time and wanting to hide
anything. Well, maybe there are good reasons for making some scripts
not accessible for wiki editing. But as skin designer I do not wish to
bloat the HTML page size unnecessary, simply for performance reasons.

And having different css files for instance can enhance usability and
help the admin.

If one of Boltwire's aims is to make most files editable on the wiki,
then one should concentrate and find good solutions to do just that.
Simply to throw (embed, or what you may call it) the javascript and
css code into HTML tags into each page is not the best answer, IMHO. I
would like wiki editable css pages which are linked to the skin HTML
by <link ...> tags. Same may perhaps be achievable for javascript
files.

In no way i am opposing ideas to make a website more customisable, and
in easier ways.

Best,
~Hans

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