Thread:Talk:ResourceLoader/Migration guide for extension developers/Custom skins (2)

Can someone in the know explain why custom skins can't use the same  resource definition method that extensions use?

I've worked around this by treating  as a configuration file, and have added my skin definitions directly to it, but that's far from portable.

Further more, skin definitions don't seem to honour dependencies; I put jquery.ui.widget in, so I can use a smooth div scrolling plugin, but it never loads (even when I'm using debug=true). I ended up adding it to my scripts section, but given what ResourceLoader is all about, that's a bit of a retrograde step.

(I do love the automatic minify and combine, though. Great stuff.)

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