Something I can see on aoc.wikia.com atm.
Monaco Brick is set for me only not default yet - but regardless of the page
I am on when I click "What Links Here" it defaults to "What Links here/Main
Page".
Looks to be hardcoded? Or is it a bug with not being set to default?
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Victor
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Christian Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> This one is specific to Wookieepedia. First, let me explain a significant
> change that we made with Monaco.
>
> We go to great lengths to ensure that Wikia's articles maintain the same
> typography as Wikipedia. In fact, when we first released the Quartz skin,
> the fonts were juuuust slightly off and Danny nearly beheaded me. :) The
> MediaWiki CSS achieves the typography in a very unique way. In the body tag,
> the font is set to sans-serif and x-small. The "globalWrapper" then
> immediately sets the font size to 127%. The typographic foundation of the
> articles is based on this "x-small * 1.27" foundation. For the Quartz
> skin, Monobook's CSS file is loaded and the Quartz CSS file undoes a lot of
> what Monobook sets globally for things like the header and footer, the
> widgets, etc.
>
> For Monaco, I added a couple of wrappers around the article area and
> pointed the x-small and 127% style rules to these wrappers. Then for all
> elements that WE wanted to specify the typography for (header, widgets,
> etc), a class of "reset" was added. A modified CSS reset file is used which
> only applies to these "reset" elements and their descendants. So, in the end
> we have less code overall and a default font of Arial 10pt applied only to
> the Wikia stuff and x-small 127% applied only to the article area.
>
> The short answer to this specific question is that Wookieepedia sets the
> body tag's font to "sans-serif" via the Common.css file. This style rule
> cascades down to the toolbox and causes some of the longer links to wrap
> because sans-serif doesn't kern the letters as tightly as Arial. I'm not
> sure if this is really needed, but I'll leave it to the Wookieepedia admins.
>
> Pansola had an interesting idea the other day to set a CSS class on the
> body tag that would indicate the currently used skin. Something like
> "wikiaSkinQuartz" for example. By doing this, Common.css can be used to
> specify unique style rules for different skins:
>
> .wikiaSkinQuartz #footer { font-family: sans-serif }
> .wikiaSkinMonaco table { border: 10px dashed #F00 }
>
> Why? I dunno, but I'm sure someone will find a use for it. More options
> are better than fewer. :) Anyway, I'll work on getting that working.
>
> -Christian
>
> On Feb 27, 2008, at 7:55 AM, Aaron G. (Greyman) wrote:
>
> 4) Imp > Another Monaco bug: The forced "User contributions" etc. links in
> the toolbox when visiting user pages screw up the formatting of the box.
> Probably
> because "User contributions" forces a line break. Anyway, somehow that
> affects the "What links here" link so it has a line break before the word
> "here."
>
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