93741 - Need new style rules to help the Strict effort

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

I have identified some notable presentational practices on www.mozilla.org that
are considered harmful in HTML 4.01 Strict. In order to separate presentation
from structure, some new style rules are needed.

Ideally, these new rules would be in a style sheet of their own. However, using
another style sheet would require changes to the wrapper. I suggest that the new
rules be place in persistent-style.css--at least for now.

Comment 1

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Attachment: Patch containing new style rules and a benner workaround for Opera

Comment 2

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

I made a typo. The attachment contain *banner* workaround for Opera. Opera
didn't like the workaround for bug 22274 that I used in persistent-style.css. I
changed the workaround to one that doesn't collide with Opera's vertical-align bugs.

But more importantly, the patch some new style rules for use with Strict content.

Comment 3

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Attachment: Updated patch with jwz's link colors

Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Any chance of a document detailing how to use these new styles (or a patch to 
an existing one)?

My same "this week is bad" comment applies as in the other bug.

Gerv

Comment 5

[Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)]

Attachment: Updated patch (changed .note to .important and addes .shaded)

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Dawn: just to check - do you have any problems with this?

Gerv

Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

henris,

Dawn has made some additional style sheet changes to the copy of the stylesheet
which lives at:
http://komodo.mozilla.org/data/persistent-style.css

Could you please roll these into your patch, as you know about CSS?

Gerv

Comment 8

[Dawn Endico]

checked in henri's patch plus a couple rules of my own so pages with
horizonal layout get a proper margin. Reopen if you see a problem with
those rules.

Comment 9

[Daniel Wang]

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