On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Andrew Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > 2009/3/3 David Gerard <[email protected]>: >> By Hakon Wium Lie of Opera: >> >> http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2009/wikipedia/infobox/ >> >> What is the likelihood of making as much as possible CSS? How to make >> infoboxes degrade gracefully for non-CSS browsers and IE users? > > Youch, that's messy in IE7. Lovely though it may be, that 30-50% of > our audience would not be happy... > > On another note, wow. I hadn't realised how much stuff was in our > infoboxes. The five lines of government I can understand, the two GDPs > ditto, but do we really need a quick-reference for "proportion of area > which is water", the Gini coefficient, or the side of the road it > uses? > > -- > - Andrew Gray
All of those are pretty interesting things - what side of the road tells you both historical information, and also is terribly practical if you're there*; Gini coefficient is an excellent concise indicator of economic & political development; and water-proportion affects recreation, economic focuses, and historical course. Given the minimal space they take up and their subordinate position, I don't see much ground for complaining. * Although one certainly hopes that anyone driving in a particular country will not need Wikipedia to tell them something like this! -- gwern _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
