On Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 2:06:15 PM UTC-5, Mat wrote: > > > Overall I think the [lack of] tools for changing the looks in TW is not up > to par with TW itself. TW is super customizable in terms of features and > application areas but when it comes to layout and style we're kind of > stuck. I think a formal "base" for styling might open up for tools that > will then build on, or deal with, such a base. >
Truly, the "base" you mention is already there. It doesn't have a marketing name like "Skeleton" but a generic one, "CSS". And the "tool" you require is a combination of the following things: 1 - CSS 2 - you 3 - your browser and its developer tools (brought up using F12, usually) Any time you want to know what TW is doing to create the styling you see, bring up your browser's tools and find the HTML inspector then using the pointing tool to point at the TW element that interests you. All the HTML involved and the CSS in use *at that point* will be laid bare -- you'll even be able to inspect which CSS rules were overwritten by which other CSS rules. And the really neat thing about this method? It's the CSS *as written* by the CSS author -- you or JR (i.e. not parsed, reparsed, rewritten and obscured, massaged or otherwise mangled by LESS/SASS or whatever else). I don't know what your CSS knowledge-level is -- but it's not a secret society... there are many good CSS tutorials out there. One thing I would advise, is understanding *specificity* -- google it along with CSS and then apply what you've read to your TW (I found this which on skim-reading looks pretty good: http://designshack.net/articles/css/what-the-heck-is-css-specificity/ ) > Is a CSS framework the best way for this? I can't tell. > For the reasons I've intimated, I'd say no. Could Jeremy introduce one? Of course -- but then I'd take him off my Christmas card list ;) > I just figured Skeleton, with pure CSS, could be a "harmless" step in the > right direction. > Perhaps. But I don't need it, TW doesn't need it and I (therefore) don't need to find out ;) Russ p.s. apols for completely misunderstanding your original Q. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywikidev/67007679-de74-474c-b654-34ba6dde94f7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
