(Replying on list, I assume it was just my reply-to's fault.)
Quim Gil, 05/04/2014 07:41:
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Once again, please just use core's style.
There was a huge discussion about
it back then, there is no need to reinvent the wheel and reopen flames.
I'll say it once, and then I'll go back to minding my own business. :)
Not using the red-green convention actually sounds like trying to
reinvent the wheel.
Possible. However, if it was such a big problem in core, it should be
addressed there and not just circumvented.
No, I wasn't here when that long discussion
happen, no I haven't read the archives. I just look what everybody
else is doing nowadays in diff land. Could you run that blind
simulator against the conventional red-green combination (see links
below) to see how it performs against the current colors used in
MediaWiki core? Just to know the results.
In fact my only complaint against the red-green approach taken by the
Mobile team is that they chose their own red-green contrast, a lot
stronger than what is usually found elsewhere.
The colors used in core are difficult to read compared to the average
red-green schema found elsewhere. I'm not even talking about users
with special needs. I just need my own eyes with not the best laptop
or desktop monitors, not in the perfect angle of view, or not with the
best light conditions. This happens already with regular text, when it
comes to white spaces it is so bad that I filed
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59093
That's really unrelated from the colours change. In fact, small diffs
were completely invisibile with the old style. See also the quotation at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.20#Diff
Nemo