[Phpwiki-talk] (Non-)Style Sheets

[Jeff D. <da...@da...>]

On Sep 16, 2001, Steve Wainstead said:
> 
> One request: I would like the default look-and-feel to be whatever the
> browser's defaults are. This is a basic Jakob Nielsen usability issue, and
> it just means (I would think) we'd provide a simple, nearly empty style
> sheet. We can provide other style sheets (like the current one you use)
> along with sheets contributed in the future for wikis that look like 1997
> Geocities pages, if that's what people want.
> 
> Not to belabor the point, but this would mean no background color setting,
> blue hyperlinks, black text, etc. I'm personally a fan of the gray
> background I get on Navigator/Linux :-)


ure, whatever your want.  Keep in mind, you can just delete the
stylesheet invocation (one -line) in each of the templates to get
the default style.

The main things the style-sheet does (currently) is:

 0. Set the background colors: the cream page background (holdover
    from traditional PhpWiki) and the white background behing the page
    text.
 1. Change the font to sans-serif.
 2. Disable the underlining on WikiLinks --- the font weight is 
increased
    on these to distinguish them.
 3. The action links ('Edit', etc...) are rendered with a gray 
background,
    and with a raised, button-like border (on those browsers which 
support
    this.) 

The text (foreground) colors are not set by the style sheet --- so you
are currently seeing your browsers defaults.  (Note that past versions
of PhpWiki do explicitly set the link colors to Netscape-like 
blue/purple,
but that those values are not exactly the same as the colors used by
(at least) my Netscape.)

Anyhow, so (besides #0: background colors) which of the other style
features listed above do you want removed?


Jeff