On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:09 AM, Andrew Gray andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk wrote:
2009/3/3 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
By Hakon Wium Lie of Opera:
http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2009/wikipedia/infobox/
What is the likelihood of making as much as possible CSS? How to make infoboxes degrade gracefully for non-CSS browsers and IE users?
Youch, that's messy in IE7. Lovely though it may be, that 30-50% of our audience would not be happy...
On another note, wow. I hadn't realised how much stuff was in our infoboxes. The five lines of government I can understand, the two GDPs ditto, but do we really need a quick-reference for "proportion of area which is water", the Gini coefficient, or the side of the road it uses?
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- Andrew Gray
All of those are pretty interesting things - what side of the road tells you both historical information, and also is terribly practical if you're there*; Gini coefficient is an excellent concise indicator of economic & political development; and water-proportion affects recreation, economic focuses, and historical course. Given the minimal space they take up and their subordinate position, I don't see much ground for complaining.
* Although one certainly hopes that anyone driving in a particular country will not need Wikipedia to tell them something like this!