Comments on: Sandbox revision available

By: The News in Detail · plaintxt.org

The News in Detail · plaintxt.org — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 06:28:29 +0000

[...] Yes, there were some crude ways to style it in IE, but, well, a lot of stuff (like block-level attributes) just wouldn’t work. So, zap, here you are. In the end, we settled on a div. [...]

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 07:23:40 +0000

Lots of changes to the Sandbox, actually. I’m beat and have handed the code to Andy; he’s updating wp.com and then I’ll update in the morning (12-Aug-06, GMT-500). When I’m fresh.

It’s version 0.6.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:20:09 +0000

Yes, there is a limit, but my point is that the abbr along isn’t totally useless in IE, just mostly.

Good catch with the Find/Search discrepancy. It’s on the list under right under — Change “Options saved successfully” message to “Skin saved successfully.”

By: Zeo

Zeo — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 14:15:30 +0000

Heh, I was doing something like that before. But the problem is because it “inherit”, you have to re-style some selectors. Furthermore, there’s a limit of what you can do.

I was playing with widgets yesterday, I found out that Sandbox use “Find” and widgets use “Search” for search button.

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 13:20:59 +0000

Hi Diwaker: Making the snv public is probably down the road. Think v1.0. Structural changes will be at a minimum. Very minimum. And new classes will be added into the readme.html tables.

Sandbox 0.5.0.2 is on the horizon. Thanks to everyone who’s given us feedback—critical and constructive. It’s making the Sandbox even better.

By: Diwaker

Diwaker — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 07:15:56 +0000

Hey Scott, have you guys thought about setting up a public code repository for Sandbox for people who want to track the cutting edge stuff? It’ll also probably be good for people who want to contribute (documentation, patches etc).

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 05:58:48 +0000

Saracen: I like you idea of numbering each post relative to its position on the page; combined with the div.alt for posts, which is for every-other post, that would add quite a few more possibilities. It’s on the list.

Zeo: the abbr isn’t in the DOM for IE 6 and earlier, as we all know. “Inherit” probably made you think

abbr.published { font: inherit; }

which wasn’t what I meant. Of course I’m not suggesting that every browser handles abbr the same way. Unfortunately not.

We’re at 0.5 still, so a div in this place (a block-ish location) is a possibility. Also on the list.

By: Zeo

Zeo — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 05:11:30 +0000

Hello again Scott. I'm still waiting the answer for the abbr thingy. And if there's not yet any POT file for translation, here it is. Saracen, you can do alt style for. Example:

.home .alt { background-color: red; }

By: Saracen

Saracen — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:53:39 +0000

What a fantastic theme Scott, I can see amazing possiblities, like a special style for the blog on special occasions, highlighting “new today” posts, etc…

A sugggestion: how about adding a post counter so that you can style the first n posts in one way and the rest differently. Perhaps the first 3 are two-column width and the rest single column underneath, or maybe the first few are full posts, and the others are just headings.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:33:05 +0000

Zeo: Thanks for the thought. It’s on my list.