The next thing that bugs me most about the current PHP code is
the stylesheet/skin handling, so I'm thinking about tackling that.
But I'd like to get some feedback on some potential changes:
First off, we're currently using inline stylesheets instead of
linked stylesheets. The latter would reduce bandwidth while
allowing more customization, and clean up the code considerably.
Is there any popular browser that chokes on linked stylesheets
and might therefore be a reason to retain them?
I want to make each skin a PHP object type, each of which
inherits from a common base type (and possibly one of its
subtypes). Is there a way in PHP to only interpret the class
definition code on-the-fly for the needed type? For example,
if our user has chosen the Startrek skin, can we avoid loading
the file that defines the Cologne skin object? This might
require getting tricky with include() and defining classes
within a outer class def, and I just don't know PHP that well.
Any other gotchas I should know about?
--
Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/>
"All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past,
are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified
for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
the stylesheet/skin handling, so I'm thinking about tackling that.
But I'd like to get some feedback on some potential changes:
First off, we're currently using inline stylesheets instead of
linked stylesheets. The latter would reduce bandwidth while
allowing more customization, and clean up the code considerably.
Is there any popular browser that chokes on linked stylesheets
and might therefore be a reason to retain them?
I want to make each skin a PHP object type, each of which
inherits from a common base type (and possibly one of its
subtypes). Is there a way in PHP to only interpret the class
definition code on-the-fly for the needed type? For example,
if our user has chosen the Startrek skin, can we avoid loading
the file that defines the Cologne skin object? This might
require getting tricky with include() and defining classes
within a outer class def, and I just don't know PHP that well.
Any other gotchas I should know about?
--
Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/>
"All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past,
are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified
for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC