SharePoint: DualLayout? Cool!

Wow. Serge van den Oever writes some of the best SharePoint articles out there. In his latest post he discusses a technique he developed that allows you to publish HTML that is unconstrained by SharePoint styles/HTML.
http://weblogs.asp.net/soever/archive/2010/10/19/duallayout-complete-html-freedom-in-sharepoint-publishing-sites.aspx

“When you want to make your design work together with the SharePoint stylesheet you need a lot of knowledge of SharePoint. Especially with MOSS 2007 people like Heather Salomon became famous for dissecting and documenting the SharePoint CSS files to prevent designers from a  branding nightmare.”

.

.

.

“… We created an approach where we can introduced an additional mode to SharePoint Publishing pages. Besides the SharePoint Publishing WCM mode with its edit and display modes, we introduced a view mode. The view mode is a mode that gives you a view-only version of the page where you don’t have to bother about the page going into edit mode, and also don’t need the plumbing to enable your page to go into edit mode.”