Down the rabbit hole with templates (and graphviz)

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SMWCon Fall 2021Down the rabbit hole with templates (and graphviz)
SMWCon Fall 2021
Down the rabbit hole with templates (and graphviz)
Talk details
Description: I share my methods for building lots of templates and welcome you to share your practices. In particular I zoom in on the use case for Graphviz.
Speaker(s): Joris Dirks
Type: Lightning talk
Audience: Community, Admins, New users
Event start: 2021/12/08 20:30:00
Event finish: 2021/12/08 21:00:00
Length: 30 minutes
Video: click here
Keywords: Arrays, CSS, Graphviz, Tabs, Tempates
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What challenges do you face if you restrict yourself to using templates? I'm a lousy programmer but have a lot of clients asking for even more templates. In the years I've developed a methodology and some best practices.

In particular I zoom in on a case where the client wanted af 'just a slight change to the default graphviz visualisation'.

Includes:

  • experiences and caveats with common extensions
  • using CSS the lazy way
  • the ever lasting struggle of keeping Mediawiki {{{{{somewhat| {{readable|}}}}}}}