IANA "grid expert", but I think it would be a huge missed opportunity not to let this be used for content. It could be a great help with pages like Portals, which are currently reliant on loads of inline styles for layout, or worse, tables.
Peter On 2 June 2014 15:39, C. Scott Ananian <[email protected]> wrote: > A grid system for content authors would be useful as well. There have > been some discussions about better semantic markup for image widths > and placement as part of the change to image thumbnail sizing which > landed last week and was reverted yesterday. > > This doesn't seem to be included in the current RfC (which seems to > concentrate on features for skin authors) -- do the "grid experts" > think that discussion of how this might be used in content would be > on-topic for the discussion tonight? [7pm Boston time, somehow Sumana > left out the east coast from her list! ;) ] > --scott > > On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 2:14 AM, Sumana Harihareswara > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Later today, at 2300 UTC, we'll be in #wikimedia-office discussing Pau > > Giner's grid system RfC. > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Grid_system "to > simplify > > the creation of user interfaces and make them ready for multiple screen > > sizes." > > Check out the new patchset https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/133683/ > > > > "It makes the log-in form responsive (adjusting layout, typography and > > visibility to the current screen size). It does not leverage all the > > potential of responsive design, but may be useful as a demo to help the > > reviewers." > > > > This is at a time meant to make it easier for Australia and China to > > participate. > > > > > http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?hour=23&min=00&sec=0&day=02&month=06&year=2014 > > > > Sydney: Tuesday 9am > > Beijing: Tuesday 7am > > San Francisco: Monday 4pm > > > > I'm sorry for the late announcement of this one; for the next several > weeks > > I'll be haranguing authors to help me get discussions set up a few weeks > in > > advance. :) > > > > More: > > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Architecture_meetings/RFC_review_2014-06-02 > > > > Sumana Harihareswara > > Engineering Community Manager > > Wikimedia Foundation > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Engineering mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/engineering > > > > > > -- > (http://cscott.net) > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
