On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Platonides platoni...@gmail.com wrote:
Why not?
The reason that a span is needed there is because there's no access to
the attributes of a
Or maybe you actually want a span. Like, say, to provide a background
around the link or something, like
span
Aryeh Gregor wrote:
In theory. The problem is organizational: the people who change the
software, the people who change the stylesheets on any particular
wiki, and the people who sync new versions of the software to the site
constitute a few hundred different groups, mostly pairwise disjoint.
Also sprach Aryeh Gregor:
We have done other big changes in the past. Almost all
creations/renamings of mediawiki messages need local community action!
The real problem is user CSS/JS, I suspect. People tend to copy-paste
that, and changes to document structure can break a lot of it
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Håkon Wium Lie howc...@opera.com wrote:
Right. While user CSS/JS is an interesting feature (in fact, it's a
fundamental feature in CSS), it would be a loss if it prevents the
HTML code from being improved. Wikipedia should be bold, both in the
content and in the
2009/4/2 Håkon Wium Lie howc...@opera.com:
Also sprach Aryeh Gregor:
(For those more familiar with CSS/JS than with MediaWiki, I'm
referring to user subpages here, e.g.,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Simetrical/monobook.js. I'm not
referring to stuff people have in their
In the quest to simplify and improve Wikipedia's HTML code, the turn
has come to footnotes. Here is a proposal that describes how the
number of elements needed to represent footnotes can be halved:
http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2009/wikipedia/ref/
As far as I can tell, the proposed markup
Håkon Wium Lie wrote:
In the quest to simplify and improve Wikipedia's HTML code, the turn
has come to footnotes. Here is a proposal that describes how the
number of elements needed to represent footnotes can be halved:
http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2009/wikipedia/ref/
As far as I
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 5:52 AM, Håkon Wium Lie howc...@opera.com wrote:
In the quest to simplify and improve Wikipedia's HTML code, the turn
has come to footnotes. Here is a proposal that describes how the
number of elements needed to represent footnotes can be halved:
Also sprach Aryeh Gregor:
http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2009/wikipedia/ref/
This looks good overall.
Thanks.
1) A problem we often tend to have with this kind of thing is that
users write lots of custom CSS and JS that depends on the exact
elements used, which breaks if we change
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Håkon Wium Lie howc...@opera.com wrote:
It's easy enough to rewrite, and the worst-case scenario is a minor
stylistic change for some users. In the best case, the markup and the
style sheet are changed in sync.
In theory. The problem is organizational: the
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