On 16 jul. 2013, at 23:51, Juliusz Gonera <[email protected]> wrote:
> I wrote an RFC about scoping Common.css and Mobile.css: > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Scoping_site_CSS > > In short: this could help us separate CSS rules added by administrators from > the core UI rules of MediaWiki. > > What we would get: > * UI (chrome) CSS more predictable and broken less often > * no crazy UI styling as seen at https://nv.wikipedia.org > > Please share your thoughts. Some things to remember: * Content isn't always inside the #content node (think navpopups, reftooltips, image annotation extension, stuff (TMH) inside jquery dialogs etc). * Anything no longer allowed by Common.css could easily be injected using javascript. * You can still get out of #content by using relative or absolute positioning * Some CSS in Common.css is already prefixed with #content (or body) sometimes, for specificity reasons. What will LESS do with that... * Some CSS in Common.css is namespace specific and thus relies on the ns-# classes of the body. * Some CSS in Common.css is rtl specific and thus relies on the rtl class of the body. There is no rtl class on #content and #mw-content-text has a different meaning. * Some CSS in Common.css targets UI, not content. That's a lot of potential breaking points for a lot of existing installations, that will need to be 'guided' trough the process. I count about 40 selectors in the English Wikipedia that would require fixing. Some of the existing content selectors would not be possible after your scenario unless using Javascript. In principle it is a nice idea, and I think we should slowly move into that direction. But in terms of styling, it's somewhat security trough obscurity if you ask me. Also: https://nv.wikipedia.org wtf? Something as unreadable as that goes against core principles. I can't believe it's been there for years already.... DJ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
