On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:42 AM, Hay (Husky) <huskyr(a)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.