I think it is unfortunate that we have reverted a change to PmWiki that arguably fixed a bug in PmWiki,css (mixing fixed and variable font-sizes) on unsubstantiated evidence (apologies V Krishn - but without screen shots and browser versions it is difficult to verify your claim).
This seems to be indicating a precedent that not changing the way PmWiki looks is of higher importance that fixing bugs, my 2ยข. Simon On 13 January 2014 08:10, V.Krishn <vkris...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday, January 13, 2014 05:44:25 AM Petko Yotov wrote: > > Patrick R. Michaud writes: > > > On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:38:53AM +1300, Simon wrote: > > > > I would be reluctant to see this changed back. > > > > I consider it more problematical having a mixture of fixed and > variable > > > > width spacing for "font-size" (the only CSS attribute we are > discussing > > > > here). > > > > > > IMO, it's definitely more problematical for a PmWiki upgrade to do > things > > > that break existing sites. > > > > I have reverted the changes in the pmwiki.css file and released 2.2.60. > > > > > > Since there's a way to get to the desired result (improved CSS for new > > > sites, easy for existing sites to switch to the cleaner design if > > > desired) by simply including a new skin (or even just an improved CSS > > > file) in the distribution, we should do that. > > > > If we add a new skin or even a new css file, in the same logic we > shouldn't > > change it later. For that reason, before adding it to the core, let's > agree > > on what it should contain. Besides font-size units, any other changes > that > > are required (tableless? RWD?). > > > > If improved CSS, responsive design... etc are being considered, > can we start with pmwiki-exp skin and add features gradually. > This could well become pmwiki3 skin. > > -- > Regards. > V.Krishn > > _______________________________________________ > pmwiki-devel mailing list > pmwiki-devel@pmichaud.com > http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-devel > -- ____ http://kiwiwiki.co.nz
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