Sorry, I haven't been able to follow the discussion 'til now.
I'm glad the skin met with (general) approval, and was happy to read the fruitful discussion.
One miscellaneous point that's worth making. At present the CSS is structured so that erudite.css is an exact copy of the original wordpress CSS, and wikistyle.css has various definitions and overrides of that to work well as a mediawiki skin. It would probably make sense to just merge the two files, so things were clearer and cleaner. There are also quite a few parts of erudite.css which aren't used at all with the mediawiki theme, which should probably be removed.
I'll reply to various messages in the thread below.
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 08:07:48 -0700, Daniel Friesen wrote:
There are a few issues. Some small ones inside the code and the file layout seems to have been misunderstood.
Thanks for taking a look. It would be great if you could enumerate what these issues were. If you were just planning to fix them yourself, I can just look at the git log, though.
I'm very happy to help fix stuff up as appropriate; let me know of anything that'd be useful.
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 08:07:48 -0700, Daniel Friesen wrote:
This is really a WP theme shoehorned into MW
That's where it comes from, yes. But to me it doesn't feel particularly "second class"; the wiki controls aren't hidden away, and nor are the standard wiki links.
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:34:07 -0400, Sumana Harihareswara wrote:
Nick, one more thing -- have you already tested your skin on various mobile devices?
No, that's one thing I haven't done at all. I don't have access to any mobile devices, either, so I'd ask others who do to maybe have a look at it with them, and report any issues with it.
On Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:56:09 -0700, Daniel Friesen wrote:
The repo has been created and the tarball has been imported into it: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/gitweb?p=mediawiki/skins/erudite.git;a=summar...
Sometime soon I'll try to fix some of the big issues with it.
Cool, thanks for adding it to that git repo. Let me know if there's anything I can help with (if I did want to make changes, what would be the appropriate workflow? a patch to this mailing list?)
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:51:36 -0700, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
- Putting the search box at the bottom is a bad practice in some
WordPress skins, and it shouldn't be carried over.
The search box certainly could be moved to float right of the main navigation at the top. To me it looks a little clunkier there, it certainly makes it easier to find.
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:51:36 -0700, Amir E. Aharoni wrote:
- The :first-letter CSS selector is not guaranteed to work nicely
with all languages. This is not, by itself, a reason not to use it; just take it into the consideration. For example, you can make it easy to disable it for some languages.
I'm not sure about the :first-letter stuff in the skin. It looks nice for english, but characters with diacritics can touch the edge of the background image, which can make things unclear. I kept it mainly to stay truer to the wordpress theme this is based on, but maybe it would be a better idea just to get rid of it.
Right, I think that answers all the outstanding questions people had. Let me know if not. As I say, I'm happy to help with the skin however I may, and thanks for taking an interest in it.
Nick