Help:Skin
From Stargate Worlds Wiki (SGW)
A skin is a style of page display. There are differences in the HTML code the system produces (but probably not in the page body), and also different style sheets are used.
The default is the MonoBook skin; what was called Standard is here in the preferences called Classic (not to be confused with the even older Nostalgia), but the system uses "wikistandard" in the naming of css files.
Links at the edges of the page are in different positions. Some links are not present in every skin. In Nostalgia some links are in a drop-down menu instead of directly visible.
Cologne Blue has a fixed font size unless one specifies in the browser "ignore font sizes specified in the webpage"; even then the line height is fixed; therefore this skin is hardly suitable for a large font.
In MonoBook the width of the panel on the left is dependent on the font size. Therefore, with a large font, the width of the main part of the page is smaller than with other skins.
For Classic with a quickbar and a large font a CSS setting to reduce the size of the quickbar text may be necessary. This depends on the project, specifically on the length of the longest word in the quickbar. If that does not fit in the designated width, there are complications depending on the browser. In Internet Explorer the quickbar overlaps the main text and a vertical line which is intended to separate the two, crosses the main text. In some other browsers the problem does not arise if the quickbar is on the right.
Since there is word wrapping but no wrapping within a word, the longest word and not the longest full label is the criterion:
- "contributions" - English and French Wikipedia and Meta - short, large font is possible
- "Beobachtungsliste" - German Wikipedia - long - large font is hardly useable
- "Foutenrapportage" - Dutch Wikipedia - ditto
- "Gebruikersbydraes" - Afrikaans - ditto
To use the full width of the screen for the main text, use Classic without quickbar or Nostalgia. The drawback is that links are missing to the special pages and your user page, respectively.
This page in various skins:
