On 1 October 2014 08:17, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote:
> The idea of <sig> seems fine to me as a way to semantically designate
> signatures, however I'd like to caution against using a <span> in the
> expanded text, as while it may not be an issue with WMF wikis, some
> third-party wikis format signatures like you would in a forum (in that
> there is a signature "block" underneath the post, alas I cannot find that
> wiki again so no example), and these signatures can contain block-level
> elements. Rendering to a <span> may break that style of discussion, perhaps
> we can instead render to a <div> and set display: inline for it in the
> default css. Then a wiki could override this to move it wherever or display
> it as a block if they so choose.
>
> Another alternative is keep the span, but add a hook to allow extensions
> to fully modify the output (including changing the span to something else),
> that way we can keep the sig semantically valid for the 99.99% of them that
> are actually used inline.
>
Or, more simply, span.sig { display: block; } in your site CSS, rather
than putting the burden on, as you put it, the "99.99%"… :-)
J.
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James D. Forrester
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Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
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