User "Krinkle" posted a comment on MediaWiki.r94461. Full URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/MediaWiki/94461#c22179 Commit summary:
Fix r94429 : Left and right side are still nearly the same color for 7% of the population. When I wrote to the list a while ago, no one argued for keeping the yellow scheme just because we're used to it. This makes it red/blue, also increases the highlight area ands adds a subtle border per Brandon Harris Comment: test.wikipedia.org isn't meant for that kind of testing. For now prototype is the place to do that sort of testing. Since these are technically speaking very small changes I created a little environment on the Prototype wiki featuring all three Diff-styles. http://prototype.wikimedia.org/ * 1) "yellow/green. Changetext is highlighted by being bold and red" ** This is the current standard and remained unchanged upto and including the 1.17 release. ** [http://prototype.wikimedia.org/rc-en/index.php?title=Amsterdam&action=historysubmit&diff=34032&oldid=34031 '''» Example diff for "Amsterdam" '''] * 2) "yellow/green. Changetext is highlighted by being bold and on a slightly more saturated background" ** Created by [[rev:94429]], about to be released in 1.18 although we will revert / replace that with whatever we come up with here ** [http://prototype.wikimedia.org/rc-en/index.php?title=Berlin&action=historysubmit&diff=34044&oldid=34043 '''» Example diff for "Berlin" '''] * 3) "brown/blue. Changetext is highlighted by being bold and on a darker background with a black border around it" ** Result of this ([[rev:94461]]) revision. Currently the reality for any wiki running live on trunk. ** [http://prototype.wikimedia.org/rc-en/index.php?title=Central&action=historysubmit&diff=34047&oldid=34046 '''» Example diff for "Central" '''] Personally I think, of these three, the 2nd one is a good candidate. Perhaps use blue on the left instead of yellow. The problem I see with the third option is that it's very crowded and busy and overal too dark (not enough contrast between the darkened background color and the black text and the black border around it. _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-CodeReview mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-codereview
