[Wikia-l] Some minor Monaco bugs/comments

[JohnQ]

Hi Victor,

We put in some caching that's effecting this ... we'll have that fixed 
shortly.

Thanks,
John Q.


Victor wrote:
> Something I can see on aoc.wikia.com <http://aoc.wikia.com> atm.
> Monaco Brick is set for me only not default yet - but regardless of 
> the page I am on when I click "What Links Here" it defaults to "What 
> Links here/Main Page".
>
> Looks to be hardcoded? Or is it a bug with not being set to default?
>
> --
> Victor
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:07 AM, Christian Williams 
> <christian at wikia.com <mailto:christian at wikia.com>> wrote:
>
>     This one is specific to Wookieepedia. First, let me explain a
>     significant change that we made with Monaco.
>
>     We go to great lengths to ensure that Wikia's articles maintain
>     the same typography as Wikipedia. In fact, when we first released
>     the Quartz skin, the fonts were juuuust slightly off and Danny
>     nearly beheaded me. :) The MediaWiki CSS achieves the typography
>     in a very unique way. In the body tag, the font is set to
>     sans-serif and x-small. The "globalWrapper" then immediately sets
>     the font size to 127%. The typographic foundation of the articles
>     is based on this "x-small * 1.27" foundation. For the Quartz skin,
>     Monobook's CSS file is loaded and the Quartz CSS file undoes a lot
>     of what Monobook sets globally for things like the header and
>     footer, the widgets, etc. 
>
>     For Monaco, I added a couple of wrappers around the article area
>     and pointed the x-small and 127% style rules to these wrappers.
>     Then for all elements that WE wanted to specify the typography for
>     (header, widgets, etc), a class of "reset" was added. A modified
>     CSS reset file is used which only applies to these "reset"
>     elements and their descendants. So, in the end we have less code
>     overall and a default font of Arial 10pt applied only to the Wikia
>     stuff and x-small 127% applied only to the article area.
>
>     The short answer to this specific question is that Wookieepedia
>     sets the body tag's font to "sans-serif" via the Common.css file.
>     This style rule cascades down to the toolbox and causes some of
>     the longer links to wrap because sans-serif doesn't kern the
>     letters as tightly as Arial. I'm not sure if this is really
>     needed, but I'll leave it to the Wookieepedia admins.
>
>     Pansola had an interesting idea the other day to set a CSS class
>     on the body tag that would indicate the currently used skin.
>     Something like "wikiaSkinQuartz" for example. By doing this,
>     Common.css can be used to specify unique style rules for different
>     skins:
>
>     .wikiaSkinQuartz #footer { font-family: sans-serif } 
>     .wikiaSkinMonaco table { border: 10px dashed #F00 }
>
>     Why? I dunno, but I'm sure someone will find a use for it. More
>     options are better than fewer. :) Anyway, I'll work on getting
>     that working.
>
>     -Christian
>
>     On Feb 27, 2008, at 7:55 AM, Aaron G. (Greyman) wrote:
>
>>     4) Imp > Another Monaco bug: The forced "User contributions" etc.
>>     links in the toolbox when visiting user pages screw up the
>>     formatting of the box. Probably because "User contributions"
>>     forces a line break. Anyway, somehow that affects the "What links
>>     here" link so it has a line break before the word "here."
>>
>>     -- 
>>     Greyman
>>
>>     http://www.wikia.com/wiki/User:Greyman
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