Wiki HTML structure (Was: Re: [Chicken-users] hygienic egg PORT-A-MANIA!)

[Peter Bex]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 10:51:34PM -0700, Elf wrote:
> i wasnt aware that we weren't supposed to document eggs that way anymore, i 
> thought it was just wiki preferred.  all of my eggs are documented via 
> eggdoc, not the wiki.  only times i use the wiki for my own egg documentation
> is to spend hours bashing my head against the hideous css.

It's not so much the CSS that's FUBAR, but the HTML structure which is
an utter mess (which requires the CSS to be over-complicated to target
the correct element). I complained about this way back when I initially
created the current stylesheet for the wiki, but the svnwiki maintainer's
response was that it will break backwards compat, so they won't do it,
even though not cleaning it up means people will struggle with it when
creating new CSS until the end of days.

> erm, as far as i can tell, svnwiki doesnt allow you to anything.  it took me
> around 9 hours to figure out how to get tables lined up so the rows all 
> started
> in the same place.  solution ended up being: use <nowiki> tags.

Yeah, the wiki syntax can be improved a bit too, but this is a separate issue.

Cheers,
Peter
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