[thesite] An idea regarding article submissions

[.jeff]

michele,

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> From: Michele Foster
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> Add CSS to an individual article?  How's that going to
> work with the user defined  (or selected) CSS files?
> What might look good now, may not look good with other
> CSS files.  What happens if an attribute conflicts with
> what is in use in the current CSS?
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that's a non-issue.  we would only allow css when it's necessary for an
article example -- simon's article being a perfect example.  we wouldn't
allow styling of elements outside of the actual example.

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> I don't think we're ready for this ..
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in contrast, i don't think we can continue without this now that we have a
solution to a problem that's been pretty significant in the past.

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> The article Simon used as an example, I think the link
> to the example is PERFECT .. its so much easier for
> someone to see what's being talked about.
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until the example page disappears ...

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> If we added that particular example, inline, then the
> user trying to figure out what's going, by view sourcing
> the article, is going to have a heck of a time.
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there should be no need to view the source of the article page itself.  that
need should be alleviated by the author supplying completely working code
within <pre></pre> tags.

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> I see some concerns with allowing article-specific CSS
> .. and I really wonder how the @import will work on just
> one article.
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there are other articles on the site that could have used the @import but
couldn't because we don't give authors any access to the head of the
document.

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> I'm not seeing a case where an offsite link isn't
> better.
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having the example in the article is *always* preferable to being offsite
for the purposes of guaranteeing the example is always available and doesn't
disappear due to linkrot.

i can understand your concerns about how you like to read articles, but
right now we don't have a facility for allowing authors to create multiple
pages and therefore the capability of having examples not only in a separate
window, but also keep it all on-site.

so, technicalities over *what* we allow the author to use aside, can you
give the concept in general a +1/-1?

thanks,

.jeff

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