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Edit request 16 August 2024

I would appreciate the ability to use the .texhtml class with the semantic <var> tag. Either of the following two changes would do the trick:

Remsense ‥ 诉 11:01, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

texhtml will at some point be TemplateStyled, so I'd honestly appreciate not spreading it around to arbitrary elements. :) Izno (talk) 14:18, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Good to know! I would like that too, so I'm happy to be patient. Remsense ‥ 诉 14:19, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It would already be so if not for phab:T200704. I made a really sad workaround at Template:Math-link but haven't spent the time rolling it out because of just how hackish it needs to be. Izno (talk) 19:20, 16 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Turning Mobile CSS/JS off permanently and supporting Common CSS/JS on mobile

I've been working on getting ready to stop loading MediaWiki:Mobile.css and MediaWiki:Mobile.js on English Wikipedia, and make MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Common.js load on mobile. There have been a few edits to MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Print.css to ready that, but now I'm going to be making a few changes which might get someone discussing sternly at me, so I'm leaving a section here preemptively in case we need to discuss certain cutoffs and such. I'll leave other implementation notes at the working page. Izno (talk) 18:21, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What's the motivation for this? Asking purely out of curiosity :) –Novem Linguae (talk) 19:18, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

phab:T248416#9678769 makes the external motivation clear I think (i.e. at some point we won't have a choice because Mobile.css/js are technical debt), but for my part I've just been annoyed at the duplication that was present at MediaWiki:Mobile.css and which is now at MediaWiki:Minerva.css and the fact that the Minerva skin isn't consistent with every other skin. Izno (talk) 20:14, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Mobile skin and block quotations

Page watchers may be interested in Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style § Mobile skin and block quotations. Please feel free to participate there. Izno (talk) 04:07, 7 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Edit summaries and "three classes to match specificity"

I'm not quite sure what Izno's edit summary "and here" means in Special:Diff/1257001458. It doesn't seem to be related to his previous edit on the same page over a month ago, but it might be related to the edit summary "no reason for that" in Special:Diff/1257000611 over at Module:Infobox/styles.css. I don't know how readers of the edit summary "and here" are supposed to understand it, because it takes investigating Izno's edits today before and after to get just a guess at what's meant.

However, what I am sure about is that removing .content from this CSS rule made its comment outdated: Use three classes to match specificity of MobileFrontend/Minerva selectors. It's no longer three classes, but two in each selector. —⁠andrybak (talk) 21:42, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm sure the note was necessary to note before. Some upstream changes (that we shouldn't be subject to anyway, but that's an aside) have adjusted the expectations for what we need to do locally I think. So now I'm pretty sure the note isn't necessary. Izno (talk) 22:03, 12 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]