On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 12:24:21PM -0700, lcrocker(a)nupedia.com wrote:
So here's a radical proposal: take more advantage of CSS to allow us
gurus to prettify articles without complicating the wikitext. Create
some method of attaching an inline stylesheet to a page or group of
pages, and put things like image floats, table backgrounds, padding,
fonts, and so on in the style sheet, and leave the wikitext alone.
Of course, that will require some way for the stylesheet to identify
elements in the wikitext. We can auto-number things like images and
tables, and use IDs, e.g., "#image1 {float:left; padding-
right:10px;}", etc.
What happens if somebody inserts a new table/figure? You renumber? And the
complexity step from doing no formatting to doing a little formatting becomes
relatively big.
Couldn't we just try a little harder to come up with a WikiWiki markup?
There is already table markup that does column-spanning, border
selection and alignment of text in cells. With a little effort we could
probably also add cells that span rows and background colors.
And how about
<< float left <<
> float right >>
> center <<
for tables and figures?
And do we really need colored text?
-- Jan Hidders