Patch Proposal: GnuSkin Twiki/GnuSkin/twikiblue.css (and probably green) have strange highlighting

Motivation

Because the existing stylesheet erroneous highlights ANCHORS instead of LINKS, and because Twiki makes ANCHORS out of certain things like headers, the resulting highlighting when using GnuSkin is strange. Headings (e.g., ---+++) are highlighted as though they were a link, and are underlined when hovering over.

Description

Correct the GnuSkin stylesheet. The change is based on looking at the twikiblue.css, but same problem also exists in twikigreen.css.

Documentation

If necessary, user documentation of any new features introduced by this patch.

Examples

Implementation

Sorry this isn't a patch. But it's pretty straightforward.

If you change the lines in Twiki/GnuSkin/twikiblue.css, from

 A                 { color: #0080CC; text-decoration: none;}
 A:active          { color: #0080CC; text-decoration: none;}
 A:hover           { color: #0080FF; text-decoration: underline;}
 A:visited         { color: #663399; text-decoration: none;}
 A:visited:hover   { color: #993399; text-decoration: underline;}

to

 :link               { color: #0080CC; text-decoration: none;}
 :link:active        { color: #0080CC; text-decoration: none;}
 :link:hover         { color: #0080FF; text-decoration: underline;}
 :visited            { color: #663399; text-decoration: none;}
 :visited:hover      { color: #993399; text-decoration: underline;}

-- MarvinGreenberg - 18 Feb 2004

Discussion:

Firstly, thanks for your contribution.

Secondly: While this would probably be a good change for the GnuSkin, it's not a PatchProposal. This is because GnuSkin doesn't come with TWiki and therefore isn't maintained by the CoreTeam. The maintainer of GnuSkin will have to decide whether to accept and integrate your changes. Codev isn't the forum to request that this happen - you should probably have posted this in GnuSkin or GnuSkinPluginDev.

Thirdly: You may want to take a look at the author-css-patch.diff file attached to the dev topic - it looks like a pre-existing fix. Unfortunately, it seems nobody has integrated it into GnuSkin for whatever reason. It seems JoachimNilsson had intended to release a '2.0' version of the skin with some fixes, but hasn't done so. Currently the skin apparently isn't even designed to work flawlessly with the 01 Feb 2003 release, much less the upcoming CairoRelease.

Don't worry too much about it - it's no big deal. This time I'm going to put a link to this topic in GnuSkinPluginDev for you; in the future you'll know the 'right thing' to do.

-- WalterMundt - 18 Feb 2004