Note: An alternative skin, TW4MW (work in progress), is available from the user preferences.

TiddlyWiki Community Wiki

[edit] Resources

• SVN repository
• static version: sample
• dynamic version:
  • Main Page (talk, edit)
  • Template:OptionalTableRow (talk, edit)
  • User:FND (talk, edit)
• SVN update script

[edit] Issues

• font is too large (especially noticeable on Main Page)
• page toolbar: ugly both when tabs are flush and with a small horizontal gap
• footer:
  • contents not vertically centered when footer text spans only a single line [not universally solvable?]
  • contents not perfectly centered (horizontally) when there is only one icon [not universally solvable?]
• CSS issues on Main Page (caused by embedded styles - though potentially also by MediaWiki:Common.css)
• bugs

[edit] To Do

[edit] Page Contents

• UL bullet icons
• table of contents (.toc, #toc)
• external links: icons (on the left?)
  • URLs: option 1, option 2
• special pages
  • DIFF view
  • page history
  • user preferences
  • [?]

[edit] Layout Elements

• toolbox as dropdown menu (e.g. next to the page toolbar)
• sidebar links with thick left border instead of bullet (cf. testcase)
• UWEB for section edit links
• special styles
  • edit mode
  • Special:Preferences
• category links: use icons from HawkTheme or BlazeTheme (and remove respective header)

[edit] Visual Theme

• color theme (cf. Thematic Color Combinations, Kuler Color Schemes)
• logo:
  • http://trac.tiddlywiki.org/wiki/TiddlyWikiDotOrgLogos
  • ninja logo?
  • TW-like shadow for site title and tagline
• image below the sidebar — e.g.:

  #sidebar { padding-bottom: 320px; background: transparent url(http://bunnywarez.com/catalog/images/ninjaKitty_black.jpg) no-repeat center bottom; }

• Trac-like layout? (e.g. menu bar = page toolbar)
• TW-like shadow for site title and tagline?

[edit] Features

• user-customizable quicklinks
  • performance issues with pulling data from pages
    ⇒ use JavaScript instead; list is created from two-dimensional array (can be overriden by user's Common.js)

[edit] Post-Alpha

• remove/fix DEBUG flags
• code sanitizing
  • move colors to separate style sheet
  • move images to separate sub-folder
  • modularize code (individual sections/portlets as functions) not viable due to performance issues
  • improve readability (esp. Toolbox section)
  • check for compatibility (=> retain Monobook IDs where possible)
• validate XHTML / CSS
• test in all major browsers (Internet Explorer 6+, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Konqueror etc.)
• meta information
  • ReadMe
  • documentation in TW4MW.php
  • credits
    • graphics / icons
• announce on [MW-l]

[edit] Features

• three main criteria

1. look distinctively different from the default MonoBook skin
2. still look familiar enough, navigation-wise
3. have some resemblance to the default TiddlyWiki layout (e.g. user bar = backstage area; categories = tags etc.)
   missing bonus: resemblance to Trac

• KISS (virtually no hacks)
  ⇒ very flexible; easy to modify with CSS only
• fully XHTML-compliant (Transitional only because of MediaWiki parser output)
• MonoBook-compatible (kept most IDs)

[edit] See Also

• MediaWiki Manual: Skinning

[edit] References