Last modified: 2012-09-27 01:10:36 UTC
The Vector skin is completely dependent on its background images. In Firefox's Edit>Preferences>Content, uncheck "Load images automatically", and reload the page you are viewing. You'll notice all the boundaries disappear... Compare this to MonoBook, which apparently has backup CSS in place, just in case images are not being displayed. Now one might argue that, well, "if they don't want to display my images, I'll just take my toys and go home." But why have pages fail to display nicely for just that? The user might have saved only that page to disk for reading later offline. Or he might be using a device in "diet mode". You never know.
Awesome idea! I've colored a few things and it's MUCH better now!
But not as good as withOUT its stylesheet: Navigation * Main Page * New pages * Categories * Recent changes * Random page vs. with CSS: Navigation Main Page New pages Categories Recent changes Random page All the little divider lines are gone still. I'll mark this bug as "LATER", "so one day it will get looked at again".
Created attachment 9573 [details] Screenshots of current Vector skin with and without images enabled, then with disabled & also debug=true Doesn't happen with regular view of Vector skin on current 1.18; probably in part due to aggressive data: inlining of those small images into the CSS. There's no extra requests for them and they're compressed within the CSS, so don't add much weight -- and since they're already embedded, Firefox doesn't have to go fetch them. Only by switching in &debug=true (and thus forcing many of the CSS to go through non-expanded forms) do we see the missing separators and icons.