Am Sonntag, den 08.09.2013, 22:53 +0000 schrieb Karl Berry: > You're right. Well, it still seems wrong to me to specify > background-color without foreground color, but since we haven't received > complaints about it, I guess no one uses white on black any more. In > any event, this doesn't need to be different than Savannah.css. For > that matter, I wonder if we could just use Savannah.css.
If we were to use Savannah.css we would gain a big overhead of rules,
while not getting rid of local.css since we still want to (I guess)
apply some rules to ikiwiki specific stuff.
Additionally, I don't see Savannah.css changing regularly or at all, so
imo it won't hurt having a seperate CSS file.
> Other comments:
>
> font-family: sans-serif;
>
> Why? If someone prefers serif fonts, I see no reason to override their
> choice.
Savannah.css uses "arial,helvetica", which are sans-serif fonts.
Therefore, we should also use a sans-serif font in local.css, for
consistency reasons. "sans-serif" (the CSS value) is a compromise
between consistency and user choice (the user might still want to use
another sans-serif font).
> h1 {
> border-bottom: 2px solid black;
> }
>
> Not sure what we're gaining by underlining titles (at least I'm
> supposing that is the effect).
I took this from various Savannah sites, where the main header is
underlined, to mark it visually as the main header. For example:
https://savannah.gnu.org/my/groups.php
https://savannah.gnu.org/my/
... and others
For the underline to be visually correct, only one h1 tag should be used
on a wiki page (I saw multiple on the front wiki page).
> blockquote {
> font-style: italic;
> }
>
> I know this was done sometimes in other css's for quoting email, but I
> think writing lots of text in italic is just wrong.
How about a left border then, like some MUAs do it?
> Besides, <blockquote> is used for a variety of things.
This is a semantic mistake, and should be avoided, imho. If we are
going to keep the mistake, the blockquote CSS rule should be removed.
> pre {
> background-color: #fffca8;
>
> I know the old wiki printed code blocks on a colored background, but it
> always seemed ugly and pointless to me.
I would keep a slight tone (maybe #ffffdd). This way, when skimming a
page, you better memorize where the code blocks are (imo). So when
coming back to the page, e.g. for a forgotten command, you don't have to
start poking around the sentences, but just scroll down to the second or
so colored box.
> Will await your comments before installing ...
>
> Best,
> Karl
Best regards.
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