Re: A way around the default table?

Le mercredi 14 août 2013 à 01:15 -0400, Doug Schepers a écrit :
> This is one of those weird formatting issues that is a confluence of 2 
> poor design decisions in the system:
> 
> 1) Semantic MediaWiki (I think) outputs topic lists as tables for 
> formatting reasons (this is really the fault of CSS for not doing 
> flowing columnar layout sooner)
> 
> 2) MediaWiki makes "layout tables" without proper headings where it 
> should, and doesn't distinguish between layout tables and real tables in 
> its output, meaning we either have to style tables
> 
> Neither of these things is really in our control.
> 
> We could simply make the category index manually (which defeats the 
> purpose of using a CMS) or we can live with it until we migrate to 
> another system.

FWIW, I think an alternative would be to create a new Result format for
Semantic MediaWiki (as part of the Semantic Result Formats stuff [1]),
and then replace our Category pages by a Semantic Media Wiki query (with
another extension à la
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CategoryMagicWords )

Of course, it may or may not be practical to do so given existing
priorities, available resources, etc.

1. https://git.wikimedia.org/tree/mediawiki%2Fextensions%
2FSemanticResultFormats.git

> Of these 2 options, I favor the first... not least because we could also 
> get rid of the hideous page names (also a terrible artifact of SMW)... 
> so we could have "CSS Regions API" instead of "apis/css-regions".
> 
> This sort of auto-categorization should be a feature of the future CMS.
> 
> Regards-
> -Doug
> 
> On 8/12/13 5:24 PM, Jonathan Garbee wrote:
> > I'd like to know why this is using a table in the first place. It isn't
> > tabular data and should be possible by using regular div elements which
> > carry no real meaning. But, this is from the first-child styling of the
> > table class being applied. So that would need to be changed or
> > overridden in the CSS and page template.
> >
> > I'll file a bug for this in the PM system.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Julee <julee@adobe.com
> > <mailto:julee@adobe.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Hi, folks:
> >
> >     I'm looking at a category page that just looks horrible.[1]
> >
> >     Any way to unstyle a table so it just looks like a table without the
> >     weird first-column-as-lede style and without the column restrictions?
> >
> >     Thanks.
> >
> >     Julee
> >     [1] http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/Category:CSS-Regions
> >
> >     ----------------------------
> >     julee@adobe.com <mailto:julee@adobe.com>
> >     @adobejulee
> >
> >
> 
> 
>

Received on Wednesday, 14 August 2013 09:18:42 UTC