Re: Wiki CSS

Greg,

( I believe that... )  You may avoid that caching by adding an expire date to the css http
header so the browser will be forzed to perform the download.

2 cents.

Gb.


2008/9/9, Greg Smith <gsmith@gregsmith.com>:
> 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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