Re: [TWiki-Dev] Rationalised TWiki skins

[Meredith <ms...@sp...>]

On Mar 17, 2006, at 3:13 AM, Crawford Currie wrote:

> Martin@Cleaver.org wrote:
>> Pattern Skin is now a misnomer - its not a skin, its a foundation  
>> on which skins should be layered.
>>
>> Toby - if you can, please build your next iteration of CabotSkin  
>> on top of the Pattern foundation.
> Martin, great work, and long overdue!
>
> One word of warning; while Arthur has written some excellent  
> support topics, Pattern is poorly documented within the templates,  
> and very, very complex. I had a terrible time extracting the  
> simpler base templates currently in DEVELOP branch. If you want  
> existing and budding dermatologists to build their skins over it, I  
> would recommend that:
> You significantly improve the inline documentation of the Pattern  
> templates. TWiki-4 supports the %{...}% comment construct, which  
> postdates most of Arthur's work. or
> You build on the base templates in DEVELOP instead. They are a  
> grossly simplified, CSS based, derivative of Classic.
> Just a thought,
>
> C.
>

I'm confused now. Is patternskin in DEVELOP different from  
patternskin in TWiki4?