site stylesheet: <code> and pre.code viewed in MSIE 6, bulleting ol.toc, and subclassing <code>

Doctor Unclear wrote:

> 
> Dear Fantasai,
> 
> I just examined the
> http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/upgrade_2.html
> page today with MSIE 6 and I believe that content in <code> and pre.code 
> is quite small.
> When viewed in Opera 7.54 and Mozilla 1.8a4, the font size of content of 
> <code> and pre.code is significantly bigger, relatively bigger and much 
> more readable.
> 
> pre.code and code do not have any defined font-size in the stylesheets
> base/content.css
> and
> cavendish/content.css
> 
> I am convinced that the current size of font for <code> and pre.code is 
> predefined (default browser values) in MSIE 6, explaining why it is 
> rather small.

Yes, it looks quite ridiculous. I'll look into it. :)

> Note that right now, I'm not perfectly happy with the use of <ol 
> class="toc"> as nested list-items are awkward, not logically+visually 
> cascading. The document does not have numbered sections to begin with. 
> So, I might revert to what was designed before.

If the table of contents is representing the order of sections in the
document, then it /ought/ to be given as <ol> (ordered list) not <ul>
(unordered list). I could change all ol.toc to be bulleted, but I'm
not sure how well that would work with other pages. (You aren't the
only one who's asked for this, though.)

> One last issue. The document
> Mozilla Web Author FAQ
> http://www.mozilla.org/docs/web-developer/faq.html
> makes use of class="htmlmarkup" and class="script"
> (e.g.
> <code class="script">document.all</code> and <code 
> class="script">document.layers</code>
> <code class="htmlmarkup">&lt;layer&gt;</code> and <code 
> class="htmlmarkup">&lt;div&gt;</code>
> )
> but these classes are not (no longer?) supported for now. I think these 
> would make a good addition in linked stylesheets.

What styling would you want for them? (How would it look
different from regular <code>?)

[shifting conversation to n.p.m.documentation]

~fantasai

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