I reverted the tables on your compact page.
While I understand you want to have a compact test page, I need to
easily see many or most PmWiki features in the tested skin, without
downloading it, reviewing it and installing it on my server. Not as a
skin developer, but as a PmWiki administrator/webmaster who is shopping
for a skin for his wiki. I don't need to evaluate the skin "quickly" but
"extensively" in order to waste less time.
Your SkinTestAssortment page is a good start in that direction
(thanks!), so for the moment I linked to it from the SkinsHeader page.
I disagree with the "curated" list of skins, I don't believe a skin is
more important than the others to require more advertisement --
selecting and enforcing only a few skins in the test pages may
discourage developers of new skins.
Petko
On 2016-08-30 03:46, H. Fox wrote:
This is just a note to point out that the SkinTest-Compact page has
drifted away from one of its original intended purposes.
When I created that page it was intentionally a very compact page. The
content fit into a typical 1024x768 screen's browser viewport (size
varies from OS to OS and browser to browser). Right now it won't fit
in the viewport on my 1920x1200 screen.
There were two reasons:
1) It could be used for compatibility testing in BrowserCam.
2) It could be used to quickly and conveniently evaluate skins.
Reason #1 may not be necessary any more. The content should probably
fit into a 1366x768 screen's viewport though.
Reason #2, however, is still valid. A visitor who's unfamiliar with
PmWiki should be able to evaluate skins in a user-friendly manner.
I have in mind someone who's considering trying PmWiki for the first
time. Attention spans are even shorter now than they were then! :-)
Back then I created a different page for skin development at
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Test/SkinTestAssortment .
Proposal:
I just created a Skins/SkinTest page that could provide something in
the middle. Right now it (:include:)s the SkinTest-Compact page.
Additional markup -- tables and such -- can be added below the Compact
page's content.
This would allow the Compact page to revert to something more suitable
for someone who's unfamiliar with PmWiki, in particular someone who's
evaluating whether to try PmWiki for the first time.
Hagan
p.s: The list of skin links was a curated list, for reason #2.
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