I think Krileon is talking about cb concitional because you can trigger some Jquey on edit profile view only with this plug.
Customization of the edit view is a bit hard because if use same layout as the user view. So I have rewrite some div spcific of the http://www.oxalis-scop.fr/index.php/communication-tic/userprofile/nolivier (I want to add microdata) and I style the edit view with long css selector.
You can also use the ajax field editor. With this your user not have to use the edit tabs

Hi Pere,

Looks like the ajax field editor might be the alternative. Thanks for the tip.