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This page describes known problems and issues with the Wlug Wiki theme and proposes resolutions for them. In general while we endeavour to make this Wiki work (and look OK) on all browsers and platforms we do have limited resources and time, In cases where trade offs have to be made this site will be optimised to work best on Mozilla Firefox under Linux.

Font Sizes

There is a known issue with font sizes using both Firefox and IE in Windows. This is caused by the Wiki stylesheets use of the medium font size keyword. Unfortunately these browsers use 16 point as their default font size making the wiki text look abnormally large. Due to the current output generated by PHPwiki using nested tags we cannot use a keyword such as smaller. While this would fix the problem for Windows users it is highly likely to shift the problem to Linux users.

This issue will be resolved once the WlugWikiConversion issues have been resolved either through the use of browser specific stylesheets, or most probably a user preference system which will include the ability to provide an offsite stylesheet.

Minor Display / Stylistic Issues

  • monospace font apparently looks different in page content / tt / pre ? -- JohnMcPherson
  • Content in includepage plugin (ie NZLUG home page) probably should be a size smaller than the main page -- CraigBox
  • Generate a text rendered version of the wiki pages for use by the meeting reminder bot. -- I'm pretty sure this item is already handled... --MattBrown
  • Replace current image buttons ("Preview" and "Save" on the edit page, "Diff" and the duration buttons on RecentChanges) with simple buttons/links styled like the "Search" one at the page top, for consistency and readability. --AristotlePagaltzis

  • Add wiki quick refs back... --ElroyLiddington

    Unlikely to happen, they clutter... Would a simple link to the TextFormattingRules page be acceptable? -- MattBrown

    That would work for me :) -- ElroyLiddington

  • Backlinks could do to be in a size (far?) smaller than page text, and possibly in some kind of aligned table? -- CraigBox

    I would be in favour of rendering them as a regular bulleted list in normal size, capped at 15 or so links, of which the last is something like ...and 213 more. where necessary. --AristotlePagaltzis

  • Reduce the amount of screen real-estate taken up by the header and footer --StuartYeates

Plugin Issues

The PCI interface script perry wrote made use of a couple of flags, hide_sidebar and hide_extra, which hid things not needed for that page. Also add support for these to RSS output, as RSS readers don't need the sidebar, titlebar, edit buttons, etc.

Longer Term Goals

These are pending on the outcome of WlugWikiConversion.

  • Improve PhpWiki HTML output to remove presentational aspects from the HTML
  • Get a clean HTML/CSS seperation between content and style