Just wondering, is there a central page that lists known issues that are or
will be worked on with Monaco?
Rather than jumping to e-mail when bugs are found only to be told "it's
known" ? :)

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:05 AM, JohnQ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi Victor,
>
> We put in some caching that's effecting this ... we'll have that fixed
> shortly.
>
> Thanks,
> John Q.
>
>
> Victor wrote:
> > Something I can see on aoc.wikia.com <http://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?
> >
> > --
> > Victor
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Christian Williams
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[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."
> >>
> >>     --
> >>     Greyman
> >>
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