[pmwiki-users] Announcement: Google Map API v.2.0.0--Hot off the press

Wed Aug 23 15:47:00 CDT 2006

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 09:34:54PM +0100, Hans wrote:
> On 23/08/06, Patrick R. Michaud <pmichaud at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> >$HTMLEndFmt is only used whenever a skin template isn't loaded.
> >If a skin is loaded, its values override anything that is in
> >$HTMLStartFmt and $HTMLEndFmt.
> 
> Would it not be good for recipe authors, if there would be a similar
> variable like
> $HTMLHeaderFmt which inserts into <!--HeaderText-->
> for the end of the HTML document, ie <!--FooterText--> which will be filled 
> with
> $$HTMLFooterFmt?

Possibly.  (This is also http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PITS/00767 .)

Originally I was thinking that adding  would
interfere with SetTmplDisplay (i.e., the ability to turn sections
on and off).

However, if we accept that  would nearly always
appear immediately before the </body></html> tags at the end, I
don't see that it would cause any problems.  Most skin templates
already have to have a  before the
</body></html> pair anyway, and this would eliminate that.

I'll take it under advisement for now, but at the moment I'm
leaning in favor of it.  How many recipes are there
(besides GoogleMapAPI) that need this?

> And it may also be desirable to have  a  variable in the <body> tag,
> to be used for onload and onunload events. Perhaps <body $BodyOnLoad>
> will do.

Having a variable in the <body> tag can be established as a
convention among skin authors.  I would call it $BodyAttrFmt
instead of $BodyOnLoad, however.  

Pm