Topic on User talk:Daniel Kinzler (WMDE)/MCR-SlotRoleHandler

Skinning is generally poorly supported in MediaWiki; there's lots of stuff that should be under the control of the skin but is not (e.g. thumbnail framing). It would be nice to get that (more) right with MCR.

Combining content should depend on the role (and maybe the page type), but also the skin. I like the idea of getOutputPlacementHints for dealing with positioning the content within the skin, but the role handler needs to wrap the content HTML, and there should be a way for the skin to replace that with its own wrapping mechanism, IMO.

As I said the last time you brought this up, that seems like something to put off until we have the basics of MCR working. If we want to do it at all.

All of this is under the control of RevisionRenderer now. We can later change how that works internally, shifting responsibility between SlotRoleHandler, PageTypeHandler and Skins as we like.