On 26 August 2010 13:11, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 09:03, Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> wrote:
>> On 26 August 2010 06:52, Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info> wrote:
>>> Le 26/08/2010 01:29, Joshua D. Drake a écrit :
>>>> On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 17:51 -0500, Kevin Grittner wrote:
>>>>> Thom Brown <thom@linux.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> And another prototype:
>>>>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/dark_ixion/4927669444/sizes/o/
>>>>>
>>>>> Wow! That looks *really* slick!
>>>>>
>>>>> That is much more readable than what I'm used to seeing!
>>>>
>>>> Wait, what? Were going to have documentation that is representative of
>>>> someone who has designed a web page circa 2005? WOOT!
>>>>
>>>> Seriously, +1. Very nice work.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah, quite impressive. Would love to know how Thom did that. And if I
>>> can borrow it for the french translation of the manual :)
>>
>> Thanks, although I'm worried it's a bit too distracting. I got a bit
>> carried away as originally it was only to make the documentation more
>> readable, so if these changes make it less functional, it doesn't
>> really matter if it looks good or not. It also happens to show up
>> mistakes in the documentation markup on some pages, so if any similar
>> sort of cosmetic changes were to take place, they may have to come
>> after fixes to the SGML.
>>
>> But I've left the CSS additions in a comment on the Flickr page:
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/dark_ixion/4927669444/
>>
>> Just looked at the French documentation for the first time and it
>> shocked at how similar my changes are. :O I wasn't aware the French
>> docs looked any different to the English ones.
>
> Thanks, Thom, this is great work.
>
> And just FYI to everybody else, I've tried Thom into the task of
> structuring our CSS a bit more, so that we can apply this without risk
> ;)
>
> Thom - there you go, now it's public, there's no backing down now :P
>
Looks like the webkit rendering engine can't deal with rounded corners
neatly where the borders are different widths so got rid of the
left-hand border-width.
Did a little bit more today:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dark_ixion/4929208375/sizes/o/
And I get to play with stuff on Github which I'm new to :)
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