On 22/05/13 04:34, Dmitrii Kouznetsov wrote:
It looks as if you're using negative absolute positionning (e.g. left:
-38px;) on the menu ...
Yes, namely -38px. How do you count these pixels?
using Firebug extension of Firefox
I change it to -28px; now, looking with Safari, I see few
On Wed, 22 May 2013, Alexis Moinet wrote:
On 22/05/13 04:34, Dmitrii Kouznetsov wrote:
It looks as if you're using negative absolute positionning (e.g. left:
-38px;) on the menu ...
Yes, namely -38px. How do you count these pixels?
using Firebug extension of Firefox
I change it to -28px;
: Monday, May 20, 2013 8:13 PM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Case Study: Skinning Media Wiki
Hello, Jason.
Your skin may be good for promotion, but it is not good for presentation of
information: the service menu offupy the most of screen, while
On Mon, 20 May 2013 08:56:00 -0700, Jason Lewis
jason.lewis1...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Let me start off by introducing myself. My name is Jason Lewis and I'm a
developer and (some kind of) designer from Australia. I play a role in
the
community side of things for a PHP framework called
That namespace is really exclusively for new skins (well and built-in
skins) that follow the skins/skinname/skinname.php, etc... pattern
outlined in the tutorial. Not skins still using hacks like modifying core
files and placing php files directly into skins/
((Btw, I have a separate
Directly using the internal classes rather than template keys is a hack
from the skinning perspective. So I didn't include any documentation on
doing stuff like that. Though maybe we should.
You do not want to use $wgUser to get the user. That should actually be
$this-getSkin()-getUser()
Hi Daniel!
As far as I can see Skin category+namespace+template is the only
good way to describe and promote the skins. I agree however that we
should distinguish between clean-written skins and hacking skins. I
can create special WARNING template about that but I think that we
should describe as
On Tue, 21 May 2013 04:36:52 -0700, Jason Lewis
jason.lewis1...@gmail.com wrote:
* The url in $wgExtensionCredits should really just be a url. It's not a
link, it's used as a url when turning the 'name' of the extension/skin
into
a link on Special:Version. So your Special:Version looks a
On 21/05/13 03:12, Dmitrii Kouznetsov wrote:
Hello, Jason.
Your skin may be good for promotion, but it is not good for presentation of
information: the service menu offupy the most of screen, while only small
part of the brouser frame is used for the main text.
I am not so skillful in
Ok, it's probably a bit premature, but I thought while we were all
happily bashing each others skins I might as well contribute a bit.
As Jason, I do (well, did) not have too much experience regarding
skinning, always gave it a wide berth. But since my skin of choice is
not very well maintained
Hello, Alexis. Thank you for your feedback.
On Tue, 21 May 2013, Alexis Moinet wrote:
I am not so skillful in writing scripts; yet I could not make the ShortURL work, nor even
make a workable copy of existing skin Vector.
So, I modify Vector; you may look at the result at
Hello,
Let me start off by introducing myself. My name is Jason Lewis and I'm a
developer and (some kind of) designer from Australia. I play a role in the
community side of things for a PHP framework called Laravel.
Over the last few days I've developed a skin for the Laravel community wiki
that
At the end of 2011 I have created the synagonism-mw skin [1] with similar
FUNCTIONALITY (no coding) but got NO attention of the community.
[1] http://synagonism-mw.sourceforge.net/
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 6:56 PM, Jason Lewis jason.lewis1...@gmail.comwrote:
Hello,
Let me start off by
I'm not exactly after attention I'm more just documenting my experience in
hope that others can benefit from it in some way.
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Kaseluris-Nikos-1959
kaseluris.ni...@gmail.com wrote:
At the end of 2011 I have created the synagonism-mw skin [1] with similar
From: Jason Lewis jason.lewis1...@gmail.com
I'm not exactly after attention I'm more just documenting my experience in
hope that others can benefit from it in some way.
Thanks!
I had a miserable time skinning a much earlier version of MW, and my client
wants me to work on it some more, so
Hi Kaseluris Nikos!
Since 2011 we decided to document skin and pay more attention to them.
I'm pretty sure that beautiful skins will boost mediawiki popularity.
Can you finalize the description of your skin here? I've created the
initial version but I don't know some fields, like example of usage,
Jason, thanks for this experience! We follow similar scheme when
making our scheme: we even outsourced the design (Photoshop images)
and html design (psd to html) steps.
1) Can you integrate it into Skinning tutorial? This way more people
will read it.
2) can you create a page for your skin in
Hello, Jason.
Your skin may be good for promotion, but it is not good for
presentation of information: the service menu offupy the most of screen,
while only small part of the brouser frame is used for the main text.
I am not so skillful in writing scripts; yet I could not make the ShortURL
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Subject: Re: [MediaWiki-l] Case Study: Skinning Media Wiki
Hello, Jason.
Your skin may be good for promotion
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