User blog comment:FastLizard4/New Skin and AJAX RC/@comment-140200-20100120234226

To Captain Silver:
 * What kind of computer/operating system/browser are you using? The new skin causes no performance degradation whatsoever from what I've seen, either on my somewhat underpowered desktop computer, either on Windows or Linux, either on Firefox or Google Chrome, and it makes no appreciable difference on my iPod Touch, which has a ~500 MHz processor, probably close to the order of 3 times slower than your computer.  As for signatures, I'm not going to modify the skin over something as petty as that.  Yes, I said it, signatures are petty.

To Greenpickle:
 * ...and that's why I'm a programmer. Firstly, my point is that you have yet to provide a good reason as to why we should bother with something much larger wikis don't need to deal with - adding classes to templates - and why we shouldn't instead do what they did, modify the other skins to have matching color schemes.  As for the programming aspect of it, using classes for this could be horribly inefficient - we would at least need three or four classes, potentially up to ten.  And, of course, I don't think you really want an individual class for each possible color....
 * But, if you would like to handle adding classes to all templates, I won't stand in your way. However, I'll set these guidelines for you:
 * Use standard naming conventions for the classes.
 * Provide me with the CSS code (or at least pseudo-code) to add to the various skins' stylesheets before you start adding the classes to templates
 * If you have to modify a protected page, let me know and provide me with the changes I need to make, and I'll make them for you.