Maybe it would be an idea to have some kind of fancy extension that adds classes for templates only if they are available on articles that need them? Actually, i'm not sure if its in their job description, but something that would make tables and infoboxes a lot simpler should be a task of the usability team.
-- Hay
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Hay (Husky) huskyr@gmail.com wrote:
I don't know if making such an infobox that does not support IE6 and IE7 is a good idea.
It doesn't even support Firefox 2 . . . inline-block wasn't implemented in Gecko until 1.9 (Firefox 3).
Also: "It should be fairly easy to do so, as the HTML code is generated by templates." Has he *looked* at the templates? :)
The major reason why inline style is used on Wikipedia is, of course, because ordinary editors don't have the ability to use stylesheets. And while admins do, they can only effectively add markup to *all* pages at once, regardless of whether they contain the exact infobox in question. An awful lot of the provided CSS is nation-box-specific, and so useless in 99.99% of Wikipedia's articles. (Literally: there are about 2.7 million articles, and I'm pretty sure there are less than 270 recognized nations.) But all that CSS would have to be served with all of them.
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