Re: [pmwiki-users] it's time to change pmwiki default skin!

2011-09-15 Thread John Rankin
> I'm sorry, it's not dotted, it's a dashed underline/border-bottom . > > On 9/15/11, Carlos AB wrote: >> [...] >> >> Does the PmWiki community wants to follow creole rules by the dot, or >> perhaps, by the underline? :-) And of course PmWiki already uses a dotted (not dashed) border bottom for

Re: [pmwiki-users] it's time to change pmwiki default skin!

2011-09-15 Thread jdd-gmane
Le 16/09/2011 00:27, tamouse mailing lists a écrit : set of presentation aspects and expect one size will fit all. I'm trying to develop a more flexible means of theming/skinning/what have you that will allow the user to take control if they need to in a more easily handled fashion. fine. May

Re: [pmwiki-users] it's time to change pmwiki default skin!

2011-09-15 Thread Carlos AB
I'm sorry, it's not dotted, it's a dashed underline/border-bottom . On 9/15/11, Carlos AB wrote: > Wiki creole says that we should use a dotted underline to flag a link > to a non existent page and I believe it is a dotted border-bottom. > > Should we respect that since PmWiki supports creole and

Re: [pmwiki-users] it's time to change pmwiki default skin!

2011-09-15 Thread Carlos AB
Wiki creole says that we should use a dotted underline to flag a link to a non existent page and I believe it is a dotted border-bottom. Should we respect that since PmWiki supports creole and I believe that this particular rule of creole was done that way to also give support for people that are

Re: [pmwiki-users] it's time to change pmwiki default skin!

2011-09-15 Thread tamouse mailing lists
I'm currently working with someone who has two different kinds of colourblindness as well as some other vision problems. As far as it goes, she is able to read and interpret the current pmwiki front page very well. She has a really hard time with a lot of sites with modern designs. It seems as thou

Re: [pmwiki-users] it's time to change pmwiki default skin!

2011-09-15 Thread Oliver Betz
"John Rankin" wrote: [...] >What is your view of sites where the link border-bottom is dotted? It o.k. for me >makes links more visible, but is less intrusive than a solid rule. The >dotted rule can turn solid on mouseover, of course. >> >> BTW: What's the benefit of "border-bottom" (besides di

Re: [pmwiki-users] It's time to change pmwiki default skin!

2011-09-15 Thread Kenneth Forsbäck
I'd also want to point out that pmwiki still uses fixed dimensions in its skin. I'd recommend moving away from anything fixed (px, pt) to relative dimensions (rem, em, %). And yes, a max-width column, not fixed. The three Rs of web design: relative, relative, relative. On 2011-09-15 12:34 pm,

Re: [pmwiki-users] It's time to change pmwiki default skin!

2011-09-15 Thread John Rankin
> I agree about Verdana because it has the "wrong" size: > http://sbpoley.home.xs4all.nl/webmatters/verdana.html Yes! As an older reader, I tend to assume that any web site using Verdana doesn't want me as a visitor. I know I can make the text bigger, but why should I? > >> I'd suggest to use a s

Re: [pmwiki-users] it's time to change pmwiki default skin!

2011-09-15 Thread John Rankin
> >>horizontally, so long lines don't cause an overflow; avoid underline for >>links (use border-bottom on hover instead, if at all); spruce up the > > I want links to be underlined _and_ coloured, I don not want to guess > what could be a link. Yes, unless there is a strong contrast between the