- From: Chris Mills <cmills@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:56:46 +0000
- To: Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org>
- Cc: "public-webplatform@w3.org" <public-webplatform@w3.org>
Ack, sorry - I wasn't aware. Please let me know how to modify the skin, and I'll fix it. 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 11 Dec 2012, at 18:13, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote: > 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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