[Wikipedia-l] Proposal: new Cologne Blue final

Mon Jul 29 14:34:08 UTC 2002

Dear all,

This is my latest, and I hope final, mock-up  rendition of Cologne Blue 
that I  intend to offer to replace the existing implementation of 
Cologne Blue.

I enclose a mock-up page: this represents the final look intended in 
standard-compliant CSS browsers like Mozilla and IE 6, but will probably 
not work properly in non-CSS-aware browsers yet. There's still lots to 
do, but the only way to find out is not to build a better mock-up, but 
to write the working code.

I realise that this design is not perfect, but it is probably 
nicer-looking than the existing implementation, and I'm reading the code 
for the new software to see how to make the changes in an evolutionary 
way will work with cross-browser support.

I'm also considering the idea of doing a version of this with tables 
alone for old browsers that ignore or munge CSS.
If I do the CSS right, the CSS version should work OK for browsers like 
Lynx.

Can anyone help me with how to go about contributing code, and where and 
how to test it? The first thing I'll need to do is just to clone an 
existing style, and call it something like "Cologne Beta", prior to 
changing it step-wise into real code.

Once I have something up and running, then we can start voting for 
features. As all code will of course be GPL, if you dislike it enough, 
you'll be able to change it yourself.

Regards,

Neil

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