On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 02:54:46PM +0100, tarquin wrote:
Jens Frank wrote:
I drafted a compromise design:
http://jeluf.mine.nu/jf/kiribati/
The right side is used to place the floats,
Those are not floats! It's still table-based.
OK, misnomer. Floats from the article's point of view, in contrast to
inlined images. Elements that don't have to have a fixed position to
the article but can be freely placed by the designer.
while the left
side uses some 60%
of the screen width for the article. On my 1024x768 screen this results in
about 50 em text width.
There are still many 460x480 screens out there! A default skin must
cater to those.
On 640x480, the text is fully readable, you have to scroll horizontally
to read the sidebars. Since those are independent contextual strings,
this seems acceptable to me.
Note the
"edit..."-links at the top of each float. Those should ideally be
editable on its own. A new box can be added using the toolbox containing
all the edit links.
It's interesting the way that "interior" elements such as the images
and
the statistics table are placed above the "system" elements. How would
that be achieved? What if the stats are not the same width as the system
elements? And I'm not sure it's a good idea to mix system stuff with
article content.
The stats and the system elements have been forced to have the same width.
This should be possible for almost any of our factsheets. The few exceptions
should be rendered inline anyway, they are probably to wide to be a good
floats, anyway.
Else you
will get
text like
this when
using
640x480
text
resoluti
on.
Taking the stats out of the article is probably only feasible by completly
changing the way we handle them. Currenty they are inlined into the wiki,
ugly since it's hard core HTML. Going to a design like Kiribati would
be easiest when "sidebar elements" become wikipedia articles of its own.
That's also why they have an edit link.
Regarding mixing: Perhaps the colour code should be changed, e.g. gray
background for all the system stuff, white for the article, the sidebar
could be either blue (making it a thing of its own) or white (showing it's
part of the article). For me those don't strictly belong to the article,
that's why I made them blue.
BTW, I'm not sure this is a good approach, too. I just try to be bold
because I think the current design is a little bit old fashioned.
Regards,
JeLuF