From a design view it would make sense to limit it for every page, but done on a global css level. Using a little number of different templates might would also make sense. BUT: I'd like to avoid individual styles on each page as user's expectations will be some common look and feel on whole wiki.
Hi Frank,
To do it for all pages I think all Enrico has to do is create a conf/userstyle.css (see http://www.dokuwiki.org/devel:css#user_styles) containing body { max-width:40em}
I would agree that limiting styles to just a few defined templates would be good, thats what I originally wanted to do, but as the reply to Enrico pointed out, dokuwiki does not allow you to have different style templates for different parts of the site, the namespace templates can contain content only, thats why I was looking for alternate options that didn't open up the HTML risks.
I guess we are just going to have to agree to disagree on how permissive a wiki should be. My feeling is that the point of a wiki is to be open to a variety of contents so it should be more permissive rather than less, especially since as a community we haven't had much experience with what is better.
Contributors are registered, changes can be reverted and the Geany community is mostly trustworthy so why not see what happens rather than lock everything down at the first thing we thought of. Also if contributors can't see what different things look like then how are they to experiment with possible improvements to the style?
However, will concentrate in content now :)
I will also try to get the images in the build document this weekend, although the weather looks good and the boss has a long list of outside jobs, so we'll have to see ;-)
Cheers Lex