Re: Deprecated/Non Standard Indications Within Listings

Nice! For production you wanna get rid of the inline styles.

Use classes and put the CSS into http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css
(there's already some stuff from Tomato and me, just add yours, it should be live immediately)


On 05.12.2012 22:07, PhistucK wrote:
> Done.
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> I will be committing this change to the actual production templates this weekend, barring any new objection/suggestion.
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> ☆*PhistucK*
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> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 <tel:2012> at 8:31 PM, frozenice <frozenice@frozenice.de <mailto:frozenice@frozenice.de>> wrote:
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>     I like it better without the "font-weight: bold". Colors are ok.
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>     On 05.12.2012 10:43, PhistucK wrote:
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>         Can someone take a look at the indications and let me know whether the color/box/design is fine?
>         http://docs.webplatform.org/__wiki/Template:API_Listing_New <http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/Template:API_Listing_New>
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>         You can see it next to "MSStream".
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>         ☆*PhistucK*
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>         ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>         From: *Alex Komoroske* <komoroske@google.com <mailto:komoroske@google.com> <mailto:komoroske@google.com <mailto:komoroske@google.com>>>
>         Date: Wed, Dec 5, 2012 <tel:2012> at 4:45 AM
>         Subject: Re: Missing Essentials
>         To: PhistucK <phistuck@gmail.com <mailto:phistuck@gmail.com> <mailto:phistuck@gmail.com <mailto:phistuck@gmail.com>>>
>         Cc: public-webplatform@w3.org <mailto:public-webplatform@w3.org> <mailto:public-webplatform@w3.__org <mailto:public-webplatform@w3.org>>
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>                      13. Indicate a method/property is non standard, deprecated and so on.
>                      Add a few check boxes to the API method/property/object (and more...) templates to indicate that it is non standard, deprecated, proprietary or obsolete
>         (supported only
>                      in Netscape 2, for example, or only on HTML 3) - each of them should get a check box.
>                      This information should show up on the property/method tables of the "Applies to..." object. Ideally, anything marked as such would reside in a separate
>         section below
>                      everything that is standard/current, so users would not be encouraged to use it.
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>                  There's an ability to mark any reference article (including Methods/Properties) as being standard/obsolete/non-__standard, etc.  Making it so that those would be
>         pulled out
>                  in the summary tables on API Objects should be relatively easy. Another good thing t o
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>              I gave it a shot. I created two test bed templates for this purpose -
>         http://docs.webplatform.org/__wiki/Template:API_Listing_New <http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/Template:API_Listing_New>
>         http://docs.webplatform.org/__wiki/Template:Summary_Table___Body_New <http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/Template:Summary_Table_Body_New>
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>         These look good!
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>              A few questions -
>              1. How do you test template changes? I created new templates just for the sake of experimentation, because I would not want to break all of the template users while
>              experimenting/making changes. Is there another way?
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>         I'm embarrassed to admit that what I've done up until now is just made the changes on the live templates and quickly checked to make sure they didn't obviously break
>         anything. The
>         way you've done it here is better for non-trivial changes.
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>              2. I added a #switch that searches for Non-Standard or Deprecated (I could easily add more, if needed, like Obsolete, which I think should be added to the
>              Standardization_Status options) and adds a styled span (it would be better if I used a class and added it to some global CSS). Does that seem fine (the style could use
>         some
>              work, of course ;))?
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>         Yeah, this approach seems perfect.
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