On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Gary C Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15 Mar 2009, at 22:01, Eben Eliason wrote: > >> Sure, but in this instance we're talking about anchor links which are >> meant to jump to specific sections of the GettingInvolved page on the >> wiki. These should definitely be fixed, and really needn't be >> absolute since they're just named anchors of the current page. > > Quick notes on why there are absolute links here :-) > > Wiki's are really, really, bad at doing the more useful UI navigation > things with images. The wiki specifically wants, and goes out of it's > way, to make all images to go to their copyright/upload pages. If you > want to make useful navigation images, well, you're kind'a just > screwed to be honest (and I wasted the best part of a day looking). > There are some template tricks, some css hacks (both of which require > absolute addressing of image and link, yuch); a cleaner trick for if > you have the image map wiki extension (we don't have that), and some > tentative suggestions in the mediawiki docs that a future version > (mediawiki 1.14) has a better solution for making navigation images.
Sorry, I should have followed up on this. Gary had to use a class="plainlinks" hack to get the images to work correctly. This was not something the mediawiki developers though we should be doing:) david > Regards, > --Gary > >> - Eben >> >> >> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Sean DALY <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Ivan has been helping us integrate the navigation between the static >>> intro and the wiki, as the media launch begins tomorrow morning and >>> it >>> is vital first-time visitors can find their way out of the wiki. >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Eben Eliason <[email protected] >>> > wrote: >>>> They're not working for me either. The links need to be updated to >>>> point to the wiki subdomain, eg. >>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/GettingInvolved#Translator; >>>> right now they just point to sugarlabs.org (Not sure why the links >>>> need to be absolute anyway...) >>>> >>>> - Eben >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Simon Schampijer <[email protected] >>>> > wrote: >>>>> Gary C Martin wrote: >>>>>> Just a quick heads up, I'm afraid don't have time to look at this >>>>>> right now. >>>>>> >>>>>> The icon links on: >>>>>> >>>>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_Labs/GettingInvolved >>>>>> >>>>>> ... all seem broken, clicking on an icon does not take you to the >>>>>> anchor. It was working fine, not sure when it broke. >>>>>> >>>>>> The wiki did get some work done on it today, so not sure if it's >>>>>> related to that recent change, or just broken by subsequent wiki >>>>>> edits. FWIW, the image links were created with a fairly hairy >>>>>> template >>>>>> trick, but that was about cleanest possible solution given the >>>>>> version >>>>>> of media wiki and plug-ins we had back then. >>>>>> >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> --Gary >>>>> >>>>> It works for me here. Hmmm. >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> Simon >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
