On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Krinkle <[email protected]> wrote:
> So, stripping inline styles: > * will not fix bad layouts made with tables (which are probably at least as > common as bad layouts made with inline styles). > * will break unrelated things, because inline styles are not directlty > related > to layout, they're used for many things. > > I think provided that there is the following documentation: > * which layout patterns are problematic (whether with inline styles, > tables or > by other means), > * why/how they cause problems > * how to solve that (and how the solution is indeed better for everyone) > > ... then is is a matter of spreading links to that documentation and > waiting > for it to be incorporated on the 700+ wikis with the many many portal > pages, > and other structures that have bad layouts. > I'm generally in agreement with Krinkle on this. But I have to warn that just spreading documentation doesn't magically make things happen -- we probably have to put some actual human effort into finding and fixing broken layouts. A one-button "report bad layout on this page" thingy might well be nice for that; as could an easy "preview this page for mobile" from the edit page. (Though to be fair, people can switch from desktop to mobile layout with one click -- worth trying out!) -- brion _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
