Last modified: 2006-11-20 15:35:32 UTC
Say, of all the different skin choices, there is no choice for "none" as a skin. Why: as some users, e.g., visually disabled users or batch users like me, would be content with just the page and not the nine other or so accompanying files involved, css, javascript, etc. OK, one could say that one should adjust ones browser to not ask for all those extra pages then. Correct. But still, for completeness, do offer a choice for no skin at all. Hmmm, as to what "no skin" is to imply, I'm not exactly sure, but probably causing only one page with no helper pages needed, and the smallest number of bits sent down the line to give a basic rendering job. hmmm, but what about images... P.S., the user has sent a request with his user agent clearly not IE, but still the HTML is full of "if lt IE 5.5000" etc. wasting bandwidth. OK, maybe you are doing this so the page can be cached better for other users. P.S., I discovered if one uses an unknown useskin=, one sees a hidden "Bug reports" older link: $ w3m -dump 'http://localhost/mediawiki/index.php?uselang=en&useskin=x'|tail -1 Bug reports
(In reply to comment #0) > Hmmm, as to what "no skin" is to imply, I'm not exactly sure, but > probably causing only one page with no helper pages needed, and the > smallest number of bits sent down the line to give a basic rendering > job. hmmm, but what about images... If this were to be introduced, images would be shown as normal; the skin has nothing to do with them. > P.S., the user has sent a request with his user agent clearly not IE, > but still the HTML is full of "if lt IE 5.5000" etc. wasting > bandwidth. OK, maybe you are doing this so the page can be cached > better for other users. Yes. The bandwidth "wasted" through downloading this small amount of extra information is so trivial, even for dial-up users stuck in the stone ages, that it really isn't worth worrying about. > P.S., I discovered if one uses an unknown useskin=, one sees a hidden > "Bug reports" older link: > $ w3m -dump 'http://localhost/mediawiki/index.php?uselang=en&useskin=x'|tail -1 > Bug reports I expect that's a link that still exists in the classic skin, or whatever the current fallback is.
Use MySkin.
