I'm a little confused. Essentially this would allow an editor to do
<style>.foo { width: 700px; }</style>
<div class="foo"></div>
rather than
<div style="width:700px"></div>
which is currently the case.
The former is obviously preferable from a mobile perspective as it
allows you to use media queries and style things better on mobile.
I think what you are talking about is something we would need to think
about once such a thing is in place.
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 6:31 PM, Tomasz Finc <tfinc(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I could see that being really useful for our editing
community at
large. When implemented we could reach out to editors and fix a good
chunk of the long standing issues that have plagued these pages.
Jon, do you imagine this as a mobile preview, editor, other?
Also, how do you imagine it working with the various responsive design
plugins that are available for browsers?
eager to see where we take this
--tomasz
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Jon Robson <jdlrobson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> In the 2+ years I've been at the Foundation a recurring email thread /
> bug reports have been in the form "X page doesn't render on mobile" or
> "Can I have a nodesktop/mobileonly class?"
>
> The problem is almost always an issue such as a huge margin left, or
> some floating or fixed width css.
>
> The answer to doing this is to provide a tool for wiki editors to
> allow them to fix these kinds of problems.
>
> There is an RFC [1] open with a suggested solution, and all that is
> needed now is to implement it.
>
> The general consensus was people wanted <style> tags. The original
> proof of concept however used a separate page (Template:Foo would have
> a corresponding stylesheet at Template:Foo.css) which was much easier
> to implement.
>
> I truly believe implementing this would reduce the bugs raised about
> template specific problems, and lead to a better mobile experience. Is
> this something the mobile team can schedule time for, or some other
> team?
>
> [1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Allow_styling_in_templa…
>
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