- From: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 13:13:34 -0500
- To: Chris Mills <cmills@opera.com>
- CC: "public-webplatform@w3.org" <public-webplatform@w3.org>
Hi, Chris- You shouldn't modify those common files, because that blocks MediaWiki upgrades. You should only modify the WebPlatform skin files. I can help with that. Regards- -Doug On 12/11/12 1:05 PM, Chris Mills wrote: > Update: I have put CSS to style my landing page topic boxes on > http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css (thanks so much > to Taylor for showing me this!), and refactored my HTML. So we still > have HTML in the landing pages, but it is much cleaned and no longer > full of horrible inline styles. This will work up until the point > someone gives me a cleverer solution. > > So I think we are ready to go with implementing these sub page > updates on the site, as soon as Seb finishes the icons (no pressure > ;-) ) > > Chris Mills Opera Software, dev.opera.com W3C Fellow, web education > and webplatform.org Author of "Practical CSS3: Develop and Design" > (http://goo.gl/AKf9M) > > On 10 Dec 2012, at 16:21, Chris Mills <cmills@opera.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I have now created landing pages for the main WPD page and all it's >> immediate subpages. So >> >> http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/TEST:main_page >> >> Would eventually lead to >> >> http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/TEST:beginners >> http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/TEST:general_concepts >> http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/TEST:html >> http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/TEST:css >> http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/concepts/accessibility >> http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/TEST:javascript >> http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/TEST:dom >> http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/TEST:svg >> >> Unless anyone has major objections, I suggest we stick to this >> overall layout. I can then get these implements as soon as: >> >> * Seb finishes the first icon set * I can get help from the >> template ninjas in creating me a template that will generate the >> floated topic boxes. * I can get help from someone to add the CSS >> to style said template. I could do this myself if someone gave me >> the keys to the CSS files, and a little help with finding things. >> >> This leads me to follow-on questions: >> >> 1. What will the sub-landing pages look like? I for one think that >> we don't need any special features to implement those. If the page >> is just reference docs, we can auto-generate one of those sortable >> tables. If the page is structured tutorials, we can manually create >> a page of headings and links. If it is a combination, we can use a >> combination of both. Any further thoughts? Would that do for now? >> >> 2. I would like to find topic domain leads for each of the major >> topic areas linked to above. The domain lead for each topic would >> be expected to: >> >> * distribute and manage work being done in each domain * >> periodically check the domain material to make sure it is up to >> date, changes are ok, and disputes are settled reasonably * Seek >> out new people to work on the domain. >> >> what do people think of this idea? >> >> I would quite happily be domain lead for General concepts, >> beginners, HTML, and CSS. But I don't have time to do all 4, so I >> think i'll grab CSS and general concepts for now. >> >> That leaves >> >> beginners HTML accessibility javascript dom svg >> >> Any immediate takers? Where a domain is really large, like >> JavaScript, I think it would be more than reasonable to have >> multiple domain leads. >> >> >> Chris Mills Open standards evangelist and dev.opera.com editor, >> Opera Software Co-chair, web education community group, W3C Author >> of "Practical CSS3: Develop and Design" >> (http://my.opera.com/chrismills/blog/2012/07/12/practical-css3-my-book-is-finally-published) >> >> >> * Try Opera: http://www.opera.com >> * Learn about the latest open standards technologies and >> techniques: http://dev.opera.com * Contribute to web education: >> http://www.w3.org/community/webed/ >> > >
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