https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71621
Krinkle <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #5 from Krinkle <[email protected]> --- This would result in loading only part of a module, which is in my opinion against expectations. I don't like escalating a relatively simple bug into a social problem, but I think this is one of those cases where that is appropriate. Maybe we should discourage people from theming their wiki to this extreme via this method? Third parties should add a stylesheet via LocalSettings instead of Common.css. This should be done by a developer instead (especially for third parties). For Wikimedia sites, I'd like to think that, while it's kind of undocumented, that people really should not significantly change the site interface. Users should not be able to notice a difference outside the content area when the styles are not loaded. That thing about people thinking it's a different site, that goes both ways. When they visit that different language edition, should that be allowed to look like a completely different website? Main reason being that the software interface is provided by MediaWiki core. If there are problems there, they should be reported to the software and addressed accordingly. Things can be iterated and tried in gadgets, but for something so central to the software, it either shouldn't be done (e.g. bad idea), or should be done (good idea) and done in the software itself so that it may benefit a wider audience (and usually a higher quality result in terms of browser support, user experience, performance and maintainability). Something as fundamental as the site font, for example. That's either a personal preference one could question whether it's responsible for users to override, or there's a technical reason (eg. their wiki's language doesn't render well in the font we choose by default) - in which case we shouldn't put that burden on them. By all means that is a high priority problem for the foundation and MediaWiki software to address. There have also been proposals in the past to technically restrict the ability of MediaWiki:Common.css to affect anything outside page content, but that hasn't gotten anywhere. And I'm also not convinced that that'd be a good thing. There's plenty of grey area where it's technically outside the content area, but part of a larger customisation that doesn't interfere with the software interface. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
