New subject: [Wikitech-l] Visualising CSS debt - cleaning up our messy codebase

25 Oct 2013

On 10/24/2013 08:27 PM, Steven Walling wrote:
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  Thanks for doing this Jon.

 When I used the Vector version, at first I got an all black screen, which
 made me think it was broken. I guess that was just a CSS rule to click and
 delete? :) 
Yes.

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  Yeah, if we don't have a bug about settling on one
overlay style, we
 should. This is pretty bad. Maybe the work being done to split out
 ve.ui/oo.js/whatever we're calling it might help us settle on a standard? 
It's part of https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55534

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.guider_button

 Extension:GuidedTour. Matt will explain more I'm sure. 
Right.  As noted, it's not actually being used.

To complicate it further, I think the UX team actually now wants to go 
in a totally different direction with no blue buttons at all 
(https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/File:WMF_DESIGN_Password_Reset.png).

So we should try to finalize that if possible.  That might avoid people 
having to go back and change their HTML twice (once to use mw-ui, 
another to e.g. add another layer).

In some cases CSS can be changed alone, but sometimes they have to be 
changed in tandem, which is more code to touch.

CCing the design list.

Matt

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