On 27 July 2012 12:53, Peter Coombe thewub.wiki@googlemail.com wrote:
This is one of the aims of the planned 'Athena' skin: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Athena
Pete / the wub
Very interesting. Looks very good already.
On 27 July 2012 12:01, John Elliot jj5@jj5.net wrote:
Are there any initiatives in the MediaWiki community for a MediaWiki theme that supports 'responsive design' [1] -- where content is properly laid out in an accessible form on all manner of devices including desktops and smart phones?
[1] http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/
Ouch. This website is aligned to the left, and designed for a fixed width of 1024px.
*reads content*
Yet again, we remember that HTML is liquid. Is supposed to be, wen is made fixed, is because compromises.
On 27 July 2012 12:08, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 July 2012 11:01, John Elliot jj5@jj5.net wrote:
Are there any initiatives in the MediaWiki community for a MediaWiki theme that supports 'responsive design' [1] -- where content is properly laid out in an accessible form on all manner of devices including desktops and smart phones? [1] http://www.alistapart.com/articles/responsive-web-design/
http://blog.tommorris.org/post/21073443312/introducing-awfulness-js
HTML 3.2 is looking better every day ...
Infinite scrolling is not always evil.
If you need to show a PDF document as a list of 200 high resolution JPG files. You can make the page height the resulting height if all the jpg where downloaded. But only download the JPG the user is looking at. If you try the naive approach,and create a html that links with <img> all the 700KB jpg files, the page will chocke for most users, because will ask for too much bandwidth too quick. And maybe the users only need to look at the first page, to confirm is interesting (maybe are books, and is the wrong book, or in the wrong language ).
http://es.scribd.com/doc/6457786/Godel-Escher-Bach-by-Douglas-R-Hofstadter-
By making a document become a computer program, we probably lose the ability to garantee it will end rendering before the end of the existence of the universe. But is often a good tradeoff.