[Bf-docboard] Blender Wiki Skin availability

[JimmyVolatile]

kamal said:

> A suggestion here: is it possible to add mark-up to a manual page so as
> to include the above two aspects in the same page at the backend, while
> the user gets an interface that gives him a choice to surf in the "quick
> browse" mode or otherwise "elaborate mode" -- this preference may be
> saved temporarily for that browsing session.


This is certainly a very good idea in the long term. One way is to solve the
whole thing client-side using CSS and Javascript libraries like JQuery or
Dojo which, in turn, would depend on properly marked up content in the first
place. As long as the elaborate part of the content resides inside a unique
html-tag or a tag with a reasonable class-name, it would be possible to
support a global "elaborate"-mode toggle button as well as toggling
individual paragraphs on and off by clicking on, say, a "More..." button.
There could even be a nice sliding animation for good measure.

As long as there's a reasonable template for the required markup around each
"elaborate" text, like Template:Note or Template:Refbox, it should be
possible.
The template would preferably need to produce markup similar to:

<div class="ContentDetailed"><span class="ContentDetailedToggleButton"><a
href="#">Read more...</a></span>
Detailed text and content goes here...
</div>

With regs,

JimmyVolatile
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