When look and feel of a widget are not controllable by designer, what ends up being is that people by whom it is controllable—who developed the widget, or the e

When look and feel of a widget are not controllable by designer, what ends up being is that people by whom it is controllable—who developed the widget, or the end user—become the de-facto designers. This is further complicated by the fact that “look and feel” can hardly be perfectly decoupled from how it works and its semantic content model (which in an ideal world the data to be skinned would be described in). Though I can see both sides, there is a belief system in which this type of work is best delegated to professionals.