Hi,
please take a look at this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:FA/BeenOnMainPage&act...
The template causes pages to become invalid XHTML. (Not in a majorly serious way, but still.) I fixed that. Unfortunately, it breaks the CSS rules people have put into their user CSS to style it. Thus I was reverted.
What is the proper avenue for this kind of situation? The "normal user" will, of course, just think I broke it and revert it, without caring about XHTML conformance. The correct way however required for those users to fix their CSS. What do I do?
Timwi
On 8/30/06, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
Hi,
please take a look at this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:FA/BeenOnMainPage&act...
The template causes pages to become invalid XHTML. (Not in a majorly serious way, but still.) I fixed that. Unfortunately, it breaks the CSS rules people have put into their user CSS to style it. Thus I was reverted.
What is the proper avenue for this kind of situation? The "normal user" will, of course, just think I broke it and revert it, without caring about XHTML conformance. The correct way however required for those users to fix their CSS. What do I do?
Timwi
Any idea how many users we are talking about?
I just ran [[Wikipedia:Featured articles]] through validator.w3.org and got 781 errors (to be fair, they're all the same). That just doesn't feel right.
On 8/30/06, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
The template causes pages to become invalid XHTML. (Not in a majorly serious way, but still.) I fixed that. Unfortunately, it breaks the CSS rules people have put into their user CSS to style it. Thus I was reverted.
Surely "class" instead of "id" should be used; that's exactly what the XHTML specs call for, I believe - 'class' is designed for when this is one of possibly many elements that should be treated as a group.
-Matt
On 8/30/06, Timwi timwi@gmx.net wrote:
What is the proper avenue for this kind of situation? The "normal user" will, of course, just think I broke it and revert it, without caring about XHTML conformance. The correct way however required for those users to fix their CSS. What do I do?
Announce the change somewhere (Wikipedia talk:Featured articles for example), allow people a week or so to update their personal CSS, then make the change. I've mentioned all this to Mark.