posted by Adam S on Wed 26th Mar 2008 19:55
As some of you will immediately notice, I've disabled themeing on the site. Very few users - fewer than 1% actually - use themes at all, and we are preparing to make some site structure changes that will make maintaining themes very challenging. As a result, we've disabled themes and we will be rolling out our changes in the coming weeks or months. When we're confident our output is stable, we'll look into re-introducing themes in a new, improved, and much more complete fashion. In the meantime, the site will only be offered with our default skin. Thanks.
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There is no www4 anymore. It's an alias for the live site.
It's unlikely we'll see www5 for a long time, since that would imply rewriting the entire PHP framework.
I get your point, but the reality is that it's a very small percentage of our userbase who refreshes and participates frequently enough for large bugs to be present. I fix any critical errors, usually, within 30 seconds. Little things like adjustments to the sidebar or preferences can be done on the fly.
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Well, you have fairly decent separation of content from presentation now - so theming via just the CSS shouldn't be a big deal. Heck, with some simple changes to semantic markup you could axe off the classes and be able to do all the themes/effects you wanted without even touching the HTML.
After all, that is what CSS is supposed to be for. Separation of presentation from content and so forth.
The classitus and divitus for example - the 'otitle1' class and div, with the wrapping span for the star - there's no good reason for this to be so many tags... Just give it a H2. The subheader could even go in side the h2 as a classless span, you style it via inheritance.
Though - I'm still getting MY theme and customizations, since I'm already using a user CSS under Opera to override the page appearance so the fonts are a USABLE size and the page isn't locked into a tiny little stripe down the middle of the screen.
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