Re: Guide to implementing CSS property pages

I've implemented some text to cover that, and included some text about how to include the live code examples for now (both Doug's suggestion, and my point about github)

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 28 Jan 2013, at 16:44, Mike Sierra <letmespellitoutforyou@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Chris Mills <cmills@opera.com> wrote:
>> Thanks for the comments guys!
>> 
>> I have answered pretty much all of Mike's comments. I also agreed entirely with PhistucK's comments, and have implemented a page about CSS images at http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/concepts/css-images and referenced it from my CSS property guide (http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:CSS_property_guide). It makes a lot of sense to cover concepts and other info that applies to several properties, in separate pages.
> 
> That point is worth stressing as part of the instructions. Authors
> should ask whether information they want to include for this property
> is also appropriate for other properties as well. In that case, link
> to it elsewhere.  In general, draw links within the site, even to
> appropriate destinations that don't exist yet.  In this case, url()
> and various *-gradient() functions are viable targets within the
> "css/functions" tree. (Either search or navigate to css/functions to
> research existing pages.) Or if you're describing background colors,
> rather than detail how RGBA/HSLA values work, you should point to
> css/units (caveat: that tree doesn't exist yet). If you find yourself
> using any other common jargon that's hard to classify & that readers
> might not be familiar with, create a link within the top-level
> "concepts" tree, e.g., "viewport," "vendor prefixes," or "standards
> mode." Readers may also benefit from links to tutorials on the subject
> available as "CSS learning material." (Other areas such as HTML,
> Javascript, and SVG have their own learning-material areas.)
> 
> --Mike Sierra

Received on Monday, 28 January 2013 17:16:19 UTC