I'm a little confused. Essentially this would allow an editor to do
<style>.foo { width: 700px; }</style>
<div class="foo"></div>

rather than
<div style="width:700px"></div>
which is currently the case.

The former is obviously preferable from a mobile perspective as it
allows you to use media queries and style things better on mobile.

I think what you are talking about is something we would need to think
about once such a thing is in place.

On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Tomasz Finc <[email protected]> wrote:
> I could see that being really useful for our editing community at
> large. When implemented we could reach out to editors and fix a good
> chunk of the long standing issues that have plagued these pages.
>
> Jon, do you imagine this as a mobile preview, editor, other?
>
> Also, how do you imagine it working with the various responsive design
> plugins that are available for browsers?
>
> eager to see where we take this
>
> --tomasz
>
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Jon Robson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> In the 2+ years I've been at the Foundation a recurring email thread /
>> bug reports have been in the form "X page doesn't render on mobile" or
>> "Can I have a nodesktop/mobileonly class?"
>>
>> The problem is almost always an issue such as a huge margin left, or
>> some floating or fixed width css.
>>
>> The answer to doing this is to provide a tool for wiki editors to
>> allow them to fix these kinds of problems.
>>
>> There is an RFC [1] open with a suggested solution, and all that is
>> needed now is to implement it.
>>
>> The general consensus was people wanted <style> tags. The original
>> proof of concept however used a separate page (Template:Foo would have
>> a corresponding stylesheet at Template:Foo.css) which was much easier
>> to implement.
>>
>> I truly believe implementing this would reduce the bugs raised about
>> template specific problems, and lead to a better mobile experience. Is
>> this something the mobile team can schedule time for, or some other
>> team?
>>
>> [1] 
>> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Allow_styling_in_templates
>>
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