On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Brion Vibber <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Patrick Reilly <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> The reason that I went the route of creating an extension vs a skin was
>> that
>> I wanted the most flexibility in adapting the content for mobile device
>> rendering. There are a number of sections that need to be removed from the
>> final output in order to render the content effectively on mobile devices.
>> So, being able to use a PHP output buffer handling is a nice feature. I
>> also
>> wanted the ability to use many of the features that are available when
>> writing an extension to hook into core functionality.
>>

> A combination of a skin *and* other extension bits could probably be a good
> future step for simply *adjusting the view a bit* ...

It would have been a extension providing the skin.

> To clarify -- a skin alone can't really do everything we want out of this
> system -- it needs to be able to freely modify a large swath of output,
> including rewriting content and styles and breaking long pages into shorter
> pages.

I think it *could* do (almost) everything the ruby code did. I agree
we should want more of this system than that, though.

I talked with Patrick after the presentation, we will a look at it tomorrow.

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