>> When I put on my designer's hat […]
> If one does not want to allow that I say change the default template
> for your site.

Being a professional web designer, I would never use any of the premade PmWiki 
skins (for obvious reasons, such as brand uniqueness). That said I think, the 
css should go where it makes the most sense architecturally (for the CMS and 
its recipes).

>From a web development point of view it does not seem to make much sense to me 
>to have the core CMS and its extensions (recipes) overrule custom css. For 
>once the custom css writer will eventually come up with a way to overrule the 
>preset css (!important). And the recipe writer will never be able to supply a 
>css that works for all color and layout variants of a skin (or all skins and 
>it potentially user customized variations for that matter).

I think we will all agree that especially this is a question of coding 
paradigms, whether you want the ‘user’ (user as in the one using the software, 
not the recipient of the website) to have that much freedom. Put in simple 
terms, should a user be allowed to come up with a css that styles the PmWiki 
skin (which essentially is a flexible with skin with a fixed width left column) 
into something totally different (e. g. a single col white on black theme with 
the 'menu' column positon-fixed at the bottom)?

Take care, Josh


On Aug/26, 2012, at 2340 , Hans Bracker wrote:

> 
> Sunday, August 26, 2012, 9:24:16 PM, tamouse wrote:
>> When I put on my designer's hat, I tend to disagree with you -- I have
>> found it frustrating when recipe writers force a style decision that I
>> haven't been able to override in my skin design (which is where I want
>> most of those decisions made).
> 
> If you are concerned about that and design your own skin,
> you can load your skin css after <!--HTMLHeader-->
> in  the skin template, to avoid css changes by recipes.
> 
> But for the default PmWiki skin I think it is right that the css gets
> loaded before <!--HTMLHeader-->, in order to allow customisations
> via recipes and config.
> 
> If one does not want to allow that I say change the default template
> for your site.
> 
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Hans   
> www.softflow.co.uk
> 
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