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I really like it. Mostly the repurposing of the left side for the table of contents, but also the width reduction. I only use half of my screen for my browser

by ketzu 4y ago

I really like it. Mostly the repurposing of the left side for the table of contents, but also the width reduction. I only use half of my screen for my browser already, and on many pages, lines are just insanely long. Personally, I nevery really minded having open space on websites. I never felt it made reading worse. Contrary, pages with little whitespace felt cramped and I lost my position now and then. But I understand that other people will feel differently about that. I'd stil like the language selector below the table of contents in the sidebar.

yamtaddle 4y ago
I wish they'd let the old sidebar display as a third column if the viewport's wide enough. However, this: > I'd stil like the language selector below the table of contents in the sidebar. would also cover most of the reason I wish they'd do that. [EDIT] Incidentally, what ever happened to 3-column layouts? They could keep the site menu on the left and stick the TOC on the right (keeping it visible all the time is definitely an improvement, and the thing I like most about this redesign). We used those layouts a ton when 800x600 4:3 was still a common monitor resolution & ratio, so surely it'd be fine on 16:9 and 16:10 monitors with 3x or more the pixels.
- trynewideas 4y ago
  > They could keep the site menu on the left and stick the TOC on the right (keeping it visible all the time is definitely an improvement, and the thing I like most about this redesign). Interestingly, the work toward implementing this new version of Vector allows any skin to decouple the TOC from the page content in MW 1.38+. It wasn't possible to move the page-generated ToC out of the content body before without resorting to JS/CSS hacks or implementing a parallel ToC generator in the skin or as an extension. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:How_to_make_a_MediaWiki_skin#Disabling_the_table_of_contents https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:How_to_make_a_MediaWik...

by ketzu 4y ago

yamtaddle 4y ago

I wish they'd let the old sidebar display as a third column if the viewport's wide enough. However, this: > I'd stil like the language selector below the table of contents in the sidebar. would also cover most of the reason I wish they'd do that. [EDIT] Incidentally, what ever happened to 3-column layouts? They could keep the site menu on the left and stick the TOC on the right (keeping it visible all the time is definitely an improvement, and the thing I like most about this redesign). We used those layouts a ton when 800x600 4:3 was still a common monitor resolution & ratio, so surely it'd be fine on 16:9 and 16:10 monitors with 3x or more the pixels.

trynewideas 4y ago
> They could keep the site menu on the left and stick the TOC on the right (keeping it visible all the time is definitely an improvement, and the thing I like most about this redesign). Interestingly, the work toward implementing this new version of Vector allows any skin to decouple the TOC from the page content in MW 1.38+. It wasn't possible to move the page-generated ToC out of the content body before without resorting to JS/CSS hacks or implementing a parallel ToC generator in the skin or as an extension. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:How_to_make_a_MediaWiki_skin#Disabling_the_table_of_contents https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:How_to_make_a_MediaWik...