https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20117
Summary: New usable skin isn't — Explicit font sizing
considered harmful
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: Normal
Component: Vector Skin
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Created an attachment (id=6440)
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With vector skin
I just gave the new skin a spin on enwp.
Running the current firefox development head on the 3.5 branch (Mozilla/5.0
(X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3pre) Gecko/20090806 Shiretoko/3.5.3pre)
on Fedora 10, but I get the same results with Fedora's firefox 3.0.x.
I encountered two initial issues that caused me to turn it off right away:
(1) All text was enormous — this appears to be due to absolute font sizing.
I.e. in the body text Firebug reports "font-size:9.75pt;" for the vector skin
while regular monobook is just "font-size:127%;"
(2) The enormous menus wrapped in poor ways which made them useless. In
particular important buttons like edit and history ended up unclickable below
the site logo.
and perhaps something of a nitpick:
* There is a lot of useless whitespace in the new skin. It's probably good on
big screens, but its annoying on smaller ones.
I've attached some screenshots.
I realize that my narrow screen configuration (I run two browser windows side
by side) is not the most common, but it works fine for most websites and I
considered graceful degradation a core principle of the old UI.
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