Thread:Balagog gro-Nolob/@comment-667748-20130427150023/@comment-667748-20130501110154

I didn't mean "cannot touch it anymore". What I meant is that changing the table styling only requires touching the single template page, which is awesome, because it means we can incrementally imporve the look and feel at very little cost. For example, your proposed improvements only require modifying the template page itself, so no problem. In fact, we could do this even after the template is rolled out, if we realize it isn't looking quite as awesome in a page as in a sandbox.

However, some changes may require to go back to the individual pages to change the data that is passed to the template. Doing this implies editing about 100 pages, which is not a cheap edit. It can be done, but I wouldn't do it just to change the shadowing of the last row, for example. That's why I added a "firstrow" and "lastrow" variable. I'm not currently using them, but if one day we need this information, it's already there. Just trying to foresee our future needs, so as to not have to make sweeping edits.