Last modified: 2013-09-29 16:12:42 UTC
What may be helpful is some wiki markup that tells the MediaWiki software to style list-items as display:inline-block instead of display:list-item for very long lists. It could improve the presentation by merely getting rid of large areas of whitespace whenever we create a list. This might help get rid of nasty-looking pseudo-list layout tables. If the MediaWiki software could calculate the width of each item, we can have a list that spans multiple columns. Obstacles to this is that the Gecko browsers don't support inline-block too well, and users may still prefer to use ugly layout tables nonetheless.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Could you produce an example of what this might look like?
We currently have markup like this: * foo * bar However, when we have a very long list (and the length of each item is reasonably short), it would be a presentational disaster to just leave them like that, as we waste lots of whitespace. The idea is to introduce perhaps another kind of wiki markup that would allow lists to be formatted as inline-block to take advantage of that wasted space without using HTML (see for example [[b:Wikibooks Pokédex:Alphabetical Index]], where ugly HTML and CSS float-hacks are used). Ideally, this new list would be exactly identical to our old list, except that the new list has display:inline-block rather than display:list-item. So, assuming a % was our wiki inline-block list marker, a list like this % foo % bar would look like this: * foo *bar rather than * foo * bar
Going through old bugs... I'm going to go ahead and close this out as this is a CSS styling issue, and doesn't require any built-in support or syntax. Some templates also invoke CSS multi-column support for a similar effect.
