[S5-discuss] Alternate themes support in S5

[Eric Eggert]

Hi Rafael,

I like what you've done, it is easy to understand. However there are
probably alternative thoughts about the problem of separating
behaviour and content:

>   * There is no clear separation between the core files that control S5
> internals (JavaScript code and core stylesheet) and the files
> responsible of presentation issues. All these files are located under
> the same directory (ui/default).

I don't like this too, it is just overcomplicated to mix them.

>   * The installation of new themes requires either overwrite the default
> stylesheets included with S5 tool (framing.css and pretty.css) or create
> a directory containing all the S5 stuff, and not only the theme-related
> styles.

I just copy my theme files into a sub directory like ui/customtheme
and then I alter the main CSS-<link>-Element. So I haven't the hassle
to overwrite anything.

>   * Lack of support for multiple alternate themes associated with a
> presentation.

Don't know exactly if we NEED this... it is a useful gadget, though.
Probably you may have a on screen version and another for the
presentation mode.

I'd like to see your method with standard methods of alternate and
preferred style sheets described here:
http://www.alistapart.com/stories/alternate/

I wonder if we couldn't implement a plugin interface to manage such
custom wishes. Such a plugin interface could be useful to implement
the various custom add-ons like scriptalicious...

> I have been refactoring a bit (only a couple of nights) around the S5
> (Eric Meyer codebase) to follow this way.

Yeah, this can be a painful process.

> My current version is still
> very early,

I really like it and I think it's a great idea.

Yours,
Eric

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