[Grok-dev] Re: Skinning/themeing

[Martijn Faassen]

Martin Aspeli wrote:
[snip]
>> Replicating this would require a different approach where the static 
>> HTML is being matched (on an id basis at least) as well, as Lennart 
>> describes.
> 
> Come to think of it, another benefit of Deliverance used in an 
> out-of-process fashion, or as WSGI filter, is that you can have common 
> look-and-feel across different things. For example, you could apply a 
> theme to both phpBB and Plone and a small Grok app. The OpenPlans guys 
> are doing stuff like that with custom Pylons apps, for example.

Good point, though since these different backends deliver different 
HTML, it will be mostly be down to css and image reuse. Not 
insignificant of course.

Regards,

Martijn