Luna wrote:
On 12/30/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Customising your own CSS style sheets is exactly the opposite of *fixing
it*.
Steve
Different people want the interface to look different. Rather than wasting
time with endless arguments over who gets "their way," just let everybody
see what they want to see. Everybody wins when the interface can be
customized.
I've been told the Firefox community used to be held up by flamewars over
tabs -- specifically, when we close an open tab, which tab displays next?
One camp wanted to display the next tab to the right; another camp wanted to
traverse to the left; still a third camp wanted to remember the order in
which tabs had been selected, and move to the most recently selected tab. In
my opinion, all three of these groups missed the point: all three options
have followings and are apparently legitimate, and it's more productive to
just allow the user to choose their preferred method.
Saves time. Saves drama. Lets us all get on with writing an encyclopedia.
Why is that a problem?
-Luna
Exactly. I very much doubt anyone wants their diffs to look like mine
(the stuff that's usually grey isn't even visible, they're blue and
yellow, and generally ugly as sin). I also doubt many people want the
"Go" and "Search" buttons hidden, as I have done (I just press Enter
to
Go, and my browser has a search box). But that's the way *I* want
things, and because the interface can be customized that way I can have
it that way.
The numbers on Recent Changes are no different. If you want to have them
pink and orange, you can; if you want to have them them in 72-point
text, you can. If you don't want to see them at all, you can; and if you
want them to appear as they do by default in MediaWiki, rather than use
the project-specific default specified in (I assume) Common.css, you can
override it.
-Gurch