Last modified: 2014-09-05 02:57:15 UTC
`.mw-ui-vform > div label` specifies an explicit dark color. On dark skins this means the contrast becomes low and in the worst case (the skin isn't using an absolute black) becomes illegible. This case isn't fixed by simply applying an explicit color somewhere so we'll probably have to create a new 'dark' common/skinning module.
Updating the importance since this does not affect default skin.
(In reply to Daniel Friesen from comment #0) > This case isn't fixed by simply applying an explicit color somewhere so > we'll probably have to create a new 'dark' common/skinning module. Why can't the dark skin(s) specify an explicit color in a skinStyles style sheet for mediawiki.ui (or the relevant module)? I am inclined to resolve as invalid and request that individual skins fix this. However, if the dark label only looks right in a limited number of skins, the alternative is to put skinStyles for those skins (not convinced of that so far) (e.g. Vector, Monobook, etc.). Unless I'm mistaken, creating a new module would change the API for how MW UI is used. Using skinStyles/$wgResourceModuleSkinStyles would not have this issue. I don't agree with Jon's new title. All dark skins do not look alike. Why should MW UI look alike in all of them? Also, improving every aspect of MW UI in every dark skin would greatly expand the scope of this bug. Let's stick the original report.
