^_^ I mentioned one twice already.
The ability to tag the body classes with modification classes like
"mod-dark" for specific skins. That way you can tag all the skins with
dark content areas with "mod-dark" and add extra bits using
body.mod-dark in your Common.css to add color changes that fit dark
content areas, but only are applied when in a mod-dark skin.
Syntax would be put inside of a MediaWiki message, something like
[[MediaWiki:Skinmodtags]]: And each line would be in the form "*
skinname: tag list seperated by spaces" where skinname is monobook for
monobook, and for quartz would be "quartz" for universal, and otherwise
be in a quartz-theme form for example "quartz-slate" or "quartz-custom".
For example:
* monobook: old
* quartz: quartz
* quartz-custom: dark
* quartz-gaming: dark
Then when in Monobook the body.class would contain "mod-old", and when
in quartz-smoke it would have "mod-quartz" and when in quartz-gaming and
quartz-custom it would have "mod-quartz mod-dark".
Then you could use something like this to color tables with a lighter
background:
body.mod-dark #bodyContent table { color: white; }
As for that example mod-quartz that could be used for things like where
to position titleicons. (Which would be especially useful, because I
remember I had to modify the positioning to get it to work on Quartz in
central. And now I even realize that it's broken for Quartz on Central
now because the CSS fix I added is no longer used because of the switch
from Quartzsmoke.css/Quartzslate.css to not being able to customize that.
~Daniel Friesen(Dantman) of:
-The Gaiapedia (http://gaia.wikia.com)
-Wikia ACG on Wikia.com (http://wikia.com/wiki/Wikia_ACG)
-and Wiki-Tools.com (http://wiki-tools.com)
Christian Williams wrote:
Here's a broader perspective on how the gaming skin stuff works (or
doesn't work).
The <body> tag is the root tag of an HTML document that all other tags
go inside of. By setting a page to have black text and a white
background, this is first done for the <body> tag. Any tables, divs,
etc will inherit the black font color and the elements themselves (the
tables and divs) will have a transparent background, allowing the
white of the <body> tag to show through.
To reverse this and obtain a light-on-dark style, we again begin at
the <body> tag by setting a dark blue background and white text. The
white text is inherited by tables and divs, and if the tables and divs
maintain a transparent background, the dark blue will show through. Of
course, this is in a perfect world. :)
MediaWiki, or more specifically, the monobook .css file (which we
always load to maintain proper article typography and design elements
like recent changes, image galleries, etc) specifes background colours
for a lot of these elements. So, the gaming skin required a lot more
work because we had to un-do a lot of the stuff that monobook does.
The cases that were brought to my attention this week (forum header
and polls) have already been fixed in the gaming skin CSS and are
awaiting release to Wikia. At least for now, the best way for these
issues to be fixed is for them to be brought to my attention (either
on the wikia-l or by emailing me directly) and I'll fix them in the
gaming/css/main.css file. That way it'll be fixed for everyone.
If anyone has a suggestion for other ways to flip a wiki from
dark-on-light to light-on-dark, I'd love to talk about it. I'm always
looking for easier solutions! :)
-Christian
On Nov 29, 2007, at 12:39 PM, Manticore wrote:
It seems when you force a white background on a template, etc., the
skin breaks it.
Example on the infobox here: http://bioshock.wikia.com/wiki/Jack
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