tarquin wrote:
- links:
everyone here seems to hate underlined links.
Nooo! Whatever you do, don't remove the underline!! ;-)
Of course, I'm exaggerating; I don't want to start another religious war about this. But I'm in favour of underlines. I have mentioned before that I have somewhat handicapped vision; I like to be able to see from first glance what is a link and what isn't. I know you're planning to make them a different colour... while that makes them stick out as you read the text, it doesn't really make them stick out when you only skim the page or even just plain look at it without focussing on any text.
And most of all, the underline shows whether two words are separate links or not. Since I hardly ever use the mouse, the hover effect wouldn't help me. Pretend I had some sort of disability that prevents me from using the mouse at all, and then think in terms of accessibility :)
I am also in favour of the underlined headings, but I think that idea is shot down already.
Another thing I would like to change is this: Our code currently puts <body bgcolor='#FFFFFF'> for system pages.
Oooh yes! This irked me when I saw it, although it doesn't really affect my experience of Wikipedia.
I can *probably* work out how to do this in PHP.
You don't need to know any PHP for this. If you just search all the files for 'ffffff', you find Skin.php, Line 124. I'll quote Lines 121-124:
if ( 0 != $wgTitle->getNamespace() ) { $a = array( "bgcolor" => "#FFFFDD" ); } else $a = array( "bgcolor" => "#FFFFFF" );
Clearly, these are the background colours for meta-namespaces and the article namespace. Seeing as 'ondblclick' and 'onload' are also used in the same routine, you can probably safely change this to
if ( 0 != $wgTitle->getNamespace() ) { $a = array( "class" => "meta" ); } else $a = array( "class" => "encyclopedia" );
Have I ever mentioned that I find 'encyclopedia' to be an incredibly hard word to type?
Greetings, Timwi