Re: Wiki CSS

On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, David Fetter wrote:

> The standard doesn't number them the way you're doing, and I need to be 
> able to override it.  Just to clarify, if somebody doesn't use actual 
> HTML and the given classes for <li> tags, nothing will change.

I'm not familiar enough with CSS to say whether that's true or not.  I do 
suspect there was a way to accomplish this for a page without touching 
common.css like that.  I would have certainly asked that question here and 
waited a while for feedback before touching anything.

What I am uncomfortable with is the way this page was edited.  The 
common.css file is cached by browsers for a long time.  See 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Catalogue_of_CSS_classes for 
comments about that.  Looks like it was about three hours you experimented 
there to get that right.  It really bothers me that changes that impact 
the whole site were made like that.  Someone who happened to grab one of 
your intermediate files during that period is stuck with that one for the 
next month unless they know the proper reload trick.  What if you'd have 
accidentally broken something?

I personally would never touch common.css with an untested change on this 
Wiki.  I have a private MediaWiki installation I use for experiments like 
that, and I'd only roll out a system-wide change on the PG Wiki that had 
been confirmed to work there first.  In this case, I don't think you 
actually did any harm, but the way this all happened is not something I'd 
like to see repeated.

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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD