https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44854

Isarra <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|WONTFIX                     |---

--- Comment #13 from Isarra <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #11)
> Sorry everyone perhaps I was confusing this bug with another one, Now that I
> see the images I'm going to have to say no, this is absolutely not in-line
> with
> the visual design direction.
> 
> While in principle the goal of differentiating "content" from "chrome" (User
> interface) is absolutely something we want to do, I do not believe this is
> the
> way to achieve it. Much of what you're hoping to achieve with this will be
> handled with the Beta Feature "Typography Update"
> 
> you can read more about it here:
> https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/79948/

That looks like a potentially useful direction for Wikipedia (and applicable
sister sites) to go if given more thought, but it doesn't appear to be all that
related to the Vector skin itself, or at all to this change.

While this change is intended to visually bring the content forward, its
primary goal is to make clearer the distinction between different layering
elements while unifying their overall visual presentation, because currently it
is quite varied:
* Popups like the gadget commonly used on wikipedia and other projects
* The extended cactions
* Echo
* Postedit
* Notifications using the mw-notification-area
* and others.

And to start, distinguishing the content from the base layer not only makes it
clearer what layer an object actually belongs to (is it part of the content, is
it over the content, etc), it also provides a template that others can follow
and helps unify existing formats - if the content casts a shadow, it's less
weird that postedit should too.

Shadows are a powerful tool when used properly, and now that browser support is
finally fairly consistent, there is little reason not to put them to use,
especially when dealing with a platform as inherently complicated as MediaWiki.

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