I uploaded the Agora spec on dropbox[1] to https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:Agora_specs.pdf . I tried to put in appropriate disclaimers and links, edit away.
I filed bug 54360 to implement new Agora spec in the mediawiki.ui CSS module. Now that the LESS CSS preprocessor[2] is in core there's some interest from various engineers. I work on it and a Special:Agora sample page after hours, but it's slow going.
[1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/wa9uayq9j09agyh/Agora%20specs.pdf , from August 20. [2] http://lesscss.org/
Cheers,
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:13 PM, S Page spage@wikimedia.org wrote:
I filed bug 54360 to implement new Agora spec in the mediawiki.ui CSS module. Now that the LESS CSS preprocessor[2] is in core there's some interest from various engineers. I work on it and a Special:Agora sample page after hours, but it's slow going.
Related is the work to port current styles in Scss to LESS. Bug https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54485 which I've noted blocks 54360, or is related at least.
Nice! It looks really stylish!
One quick thought: Is Helvetica Neue a freely licensed font? (I remember around ten years ago that my firm bought a license for it, but it may have changed since then.)
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On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 12:13 PM, S Page spage@wikimedia.org wrote:
I filed bug 54360 to implement new Agora spec in the mediawiki.ui CSS module. Now that the LESS CSS preprocessor[2] is in core there's some interest from various engineers. I work on it and a Special:Agora sample page after hours, but it's slow going.
Related is the work to port current styles in Scss to LESS. Bug https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54485 which I've noted blocks 54360, or is related at least.
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Let's not start the font discussion again.
For now, we're sticking with plain old Serif. The document is out of date in that regard.
On Sep 24, 2013, at 1:26 PM, Jan Ainali jan.ainali@wikimedia.se wrote:
Nice! It looks really stylish!
One quick thought: Is Helvetica Neue a freely licensed font? (I remember around ten years ago that my firm bought a license for it, but it may have changed since then.)
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On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Brandon Harris bharris@wikimedia.orgwrote:
Let's not start the font discussion again. For now, we're sticking with plain old Serif. The document is outof date in that regard.
If that's the case, it's the first I've heard of it... The PDF and https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Design/Typography need to be updated if that's the new consensus out of the design team.
Jan: for reference, the way that kind of font stack works is that it would only specify certain fonts for the users that already have them installed on their system, using font families and a fallbackhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_typography#Fallback_fontslist. It would *never* deliver a new proprietary font to a user, such as through Web fontshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_typography#Web_fontsimporting of typefaces. Each user would see slightly different but similar typefaces depending on what their system has, which is why the "Wikimedia Foundation Design/Typography" page describes a list of fonts that include core fonts for Windows, Linux, and OSX.