On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Daniel Mayer wrote:
Oh no! Pink was chosen to be the color for animals.
Lightgreen is for plants,
lightblue for fungi, lightgrey for bacteria and khaki for protists. On top of
that there are slightly different tables for phylums/divisions, classes,
orders, families, genera and species is even more different (see:
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Sainfoin). So any markup will have to be
flexible.
Is this really what we want? To have articles decide layout and colors? I think
this is a very scary development - this is the same thing that happened to the
web in the early days, and look where we are now! Next thing, we have
[[flash:fun.swf]]!
The beauty of Wikipedia is its content, and that this content is separate from
the form. If we start using tables for anything else than structuring content
(that is layout, coloring, etc.) we risk seriously f#!$"ng up later chances for
presenting the content in a new way.
To blind people, or having your cellphone read it out aloud. Printing, XLM,
etc. Information will be lost here if tables become too powerful, and start
being used for non-content purposes.
But won't a colorless place look boring? Deal with it! Wikipedia already looks
boring! Let someone make a flash front end one day, instead.
Aren't anyone else worried about these things?
-- Daniel